The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question. 18. (1) At present British households are firmly in saving mode. (2) Cheaper borrowing will certainly free up cash (3) The high rate of saving and fast pace of deleveraging mean that Britain does not need to return to a debt-fuelled spending spree. (4) This has allowed Britain to lower their debt to income rates rapidly by a quarter in four years (5) But whether that leads to stronger consumption and economic growth depends on whether the cash is saved or spent.
The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question. 16. (1) She had never seen herself from all points of view before. As she gazed, she strove not to be ashamed of her dress; but even her face and figure, which usually afforded her unqualified delight, seemed robust and middle−class in these breathtaking mirrors. (2) There was in the room a series of mirrors consisting of a great glass in which she could see herself at full length, another framed in the carved oaken dressing−table, and smaller ones of various shapes fixed to jointed arms that turned every way. To use them for the first time was like having eyes in the back of the head. (3) Alice was fond of thinking that she had a womanly taste and touch in making a room pretty. She was accustomed to survey with pride her mother's drawing−room, which she had garnished with cheap cretonnes, Japanese paper fans, and knick−knacks in ornamental pottery. (4) She pictured to herself with a shudder the effect of a sixpenny Chinese umbrella in that fireplace, a cretonne valance to that bed, or chintz curtains to those windows. (5) She felt now that if she slept once in the magnificent bed before her, she could never be content in her mother's house again. All that she had read and believed of the beauty of cheap and simple ornament, and the vulgarity of costliness, recurred to her as a hypocritical paraphrase of the "sour grapes" of the fox in the fable.
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The trouble with water is that it is all politics, no economics. The costs of poor management are large: groundwater depletion takes 2.1% off Jordan's GDP; water pollution and scarcity knock 2.3% off China's; 11% of Kenya's was lost to flooding in 1997-98, and 16% to drought in the next two years. Rich countries build sewers, drains, dams, reservoirs, flood defences, irrigation canals and barrages to avoid such problems. Poor countries, with some exceptions, notably China, find large projects much more difficult. But at least large projects give politicians a monument to boast about. Small projects—weirs and wells and waterworks—have no allure for big-headed politicians.
That is a pity. A small dam is relatively cheap to construct: modest reservoirs known in India as tanks used to be built and maintained by local villagers. For a millennium they provided water in times of need and helped make rulers like the Nizams of Hyderabad some of the richest men in the world. Now they are often silted up, polluted with pesticides, metals and phosphorus, or built on. In Kenya, by contrast, small dams are coming into fashion. Rainwater is channelled into sand catchments, which serve both to filter it and to protect it from evaporation. Some goes into nearby soil, for crops, some into groundwater from which it can later be recovered. In Niger a 15-year project involving dams and reclamation has restored nearly 20,000 hectares of unproductive land to forestry or agricultural use.
Everyone loves projects like these, especially if they can be given a romantic name like water harvesting. Some, perhaps, may simply be intercepting water for one user that would otherwise have gone to another, but almost every country could reduce its evaporation losses by capturing water and delivering it more effectively to the farmer, bather, drinker or manufacturer—and then, ideally, using it again. The harder question is whether that is enough.
Many believe it is not. Throughout history, man has made efforts to control water, divert it by means of canals, carry it via aqueducts, store it in reservoirs, harness it with water wheels and so on. The costs of these endeavours have been huge: valleys flooded, villages and habitats destroyed, wetlands drained and inland seas reduced to mere puddles. But the benefits have also been enormous.
The Aswan High Dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon. Yet, according to the World Bank, it has provided a bulwark against flooding for buildings and crops, a huge expansion of farming and Nile navigation (lots of tourism) and enough electricity for the whole of Egypt—all of which amounts to the equivalent each year of 2% of GDP in net benefits.
So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist? The bank has been involved in few of the 200 or so large dams built in the past five years, but that is mainly because dam-builders—of which China is much the biggest—do not care for the bank's time-and-money consuming regulations, designed to ensure decent technical, social and environmental standards. Their strictness partly reflects greater knowledge about the consequences of building dams, partly the related political controversies of the 1980s. Even so, the bank was involved in 101 dam and hydro projects in 2007, up from 89 in 1997 and 76 in 2003; and it approved over $800m in hydro lending in 2008, up from $250m in 2002.
Suspicions of big dams still run high—and with some reason. Mr.Thakkar, scrutineer of the Indian water scene, says that although the installed capacity of India's hydro projects increased at a compound rate of 4.4% a year between 1991 and 2005, the amount of energy generated actually fell. Some of the projects, poorly sited or poorly designed, were doomed to be uneconomic from the start. Others have been badly maintained or have simply silted up. But though 89% of the country's hydro projects operate below design capacity, the building continues wastefully apace.
Mr.Thakkar argues that small projects offer much better returns, even for the crucial task of refilling aquifers by capturing monsoon rainfall. He points to the success of micro-irrigation in semi-arid Gujarat, whose agriculture has grown at an average of 9.6% a year since the turn of the century, partly thanks to the creation of 500,000 small ponds, dams and suchlike.
Q.18
Which of the following is/are the reasons for the decreasing interest of the World Bank to fund big dams?
(a) Dam builders like China do not care for the time-and-money consuming regulations of the Bank.
(b) The Bank is concerned about the environmental and social consequences based on its prior experiences.
(c) The Bank wants to stay clear of political controversies.
- a,b&c
- a&c
- a&b
- b&c
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Can someone elaborate why statement 1 is correct.. Not able to link that.. Statement 2&3 are direct but 1 seem quite Complicated
Doubt in 4th statement
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. Those of us who are concerned with children’s literature need to beware of the trap laid for us by the very concept of ‘literature’, and adult literary standards that claim to be (or aspire to be) authoritative.
2. Hunt’s vision of what he calls ‘childist criticism’ concentrates specifically on children as readers – including as readers of pictures.
3. If we value children as readers who make meaning at all, we have to see them making it within their own culture.
4. Childist criticism is in part an attempt to address what some regard as a weakness in children’s literature studies: the tendency to use theories from other disciplines rather than to generate original approaches.
5. So says Peter Hunt, a critic who has argued persuasively that children’s literature criticism needs to avoid making judgements on behalf of children and instead include the voices of children.
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Enter in the box provided below the most logical order of sentences to construct a coherent paragraph.
1. The readers of their tales in the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century were faced with these problems to one degree or another, but they did not question their depiction and treatment by the Grimms – in fact, they tended to agree with the patronizingly Christian way that the Grimms dealt with the hunger, abandonment and survival of two small children.
2. Certainly the promotion of the tale to classical status would make it seem so: 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the most popular tales in the world today.
3. Despite all its sweetness and seemingly comforting happy ending, 'Hansel and Gretel' is a very problematical fairy tale.
4. Yet many post-1945 writers, illustrators, and filmmakers – those who have not just insipidly replicated the Grimms' tale without questioning their work – have not been completely satisfied with the narrative mode and contents of 'Hansel and Gretel' and have interrogated the original Grimms' text in an endeavour to grasp the underlying reasons for the abandonment of two children by their parents and for their return to a weeping father who is rewarded with pearls and jewels.
5. It raises problems that pertain to the consequences of hunger in poor families, the trauma of abandonment, the depiction of women as nasty stepmothers and witches, survival, and the sanctification of paternal rule, that were, in fact, glossed over by the writers, the Brothers Grimm.
PJ:
(1) Western civilization guaranteed freedom for its own people, and occupied poor nations and deprived their people of their rights, including freedom.
(2) Since God gave us freedom for free, we must do our best to maintain and keep this right, as freedom is not absolute – the freedom of any one ends where the freedom of another begins.
(3) Historically, there has been evident proof that freedom is innate to a human and that he will fight as long as he lives, to restore his innate right to be a free man.
(4) The poor nations fought without rest to restore freedom and autonomy from occupation.
(5) Abduction of rights is not a respectful human action.
OA is 31452...why not 52314...?
PJ:
(1) The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature has not misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know.
(2) That's the main reason why so much scientific and mechanical information sounds so dull and so cautious.
(3) One must be extremely careful and rigidly logical when dealing with Nature: one logical slip and an entire scientific edifice comes tumbling down.
(4) There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who hasn't suffered from that one so much that he's not instinctively on guard.
(5) If you get careless or go on romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you – it does it often enough anyway, even when you don't give it opportunities.
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Parajumbles
(1) Establishing the number of disappeared is only the first step.
(2) Although the government has set up a task force to find the disappeared, human-rights groups say there is little evidence that the data on those missing, including DNA samples of their family members, are being matched with the DNA of unidentified corpses.
(3) Trying to find them is another; prosecuting those responsible another still.
(4) Often at great risk, they traipse from morgue to morgue, police station to police station.
(5) Families of the disappeared say the search for their loved ones have been left up to them.
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Parajumbles
(1) The American economist Simon Kuznets, whose research led to this finding, had used the available U.S. data for the period between 1913 and 1948.
(2) With workers moving out of agriculture into manufacturing and subsequently into services (or the tertiary sector), earnings would become generally higher and more equal.
(3) This came as good news in the middle of the Cold War.
(4) The Kuznets Curve claimed in the early 1950s that income inequality was an inverted “U”, increasing initially but then almost automatically reversing as economies reached higher levels of income
(5) The explanation given for the initial increase in income inequality and its subsequent reversal was that productivity and income were higher in the industrial (or secondary) sector than in the agricultural (or primary) sector, resulting in higher earnings even for workers as they moved to the latter.
CL Mock 13 :
The following question contains a set of six sentences. The first and the last sentences are in the correct order. The remaining four sentences need to be arranged in a logical order so as to make a coherent paragraph.
1. The theme of the story of art, unlike that of the sciences, is not, whatever else it may be, one of progress.
A. Marcel Proust is a case in highly italicized point: No one could have predicted that this dilettantish young social climber would write a novel
B. In science, discovery builds on discovery, achievement on achievement. “If I have seen further,” said Isaac Newton, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
C. One that Benjamin Taylor, in this study of Proust in the Yale Jewish Lives series, calls the “culmination of European literature.”
D. In art there are merely—some merely—discrete geniuses, who arrive without predecessors and depart without successors.
6. Taylor’s Proust: The Search is a work of admirable concision, covering Marcel Proust’s life, interests, oddity, and the arc of his career, all in relatively brief compass.
1. DCAB
2. DBAC
3. CBAD
4. CADB
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Despite the presence of desperately poor Gypsies in Romania, it is also a country that thoroughly banishes the stereotype of the poor Gypsy, as I discover driving west of the drab concrete city of Alexandria. There, I catch sight of a mirage in the low, early morning sun – an astonishing sea of turrets covered in shimmering silver scales rises from the flat fields of brown. It is an architectural hallucination, the mongrel offspring of Bavarian castle and Japanese pagoda, a zany Gypsy Disneyland. These competing palaces of prosperity dominate the town of Buzescu, home to over a thousand members of the Kalderash clan – Gypsies or “Roma” who were traditionally coppersmiths. Stretched between the spires of the turrets, hanging like banners, the names of the owners are sculpted in zinc, broadcasting a message clear across the Danubian plains of southern Romania, a whooping visual cheer to the ingenuity of the Roma.The biggest of the villas is owned by Marin Stoica, the bulibasha – the unoffcial village leader. I am shown around by his granddaughter, Daniela Constantin, whose smile reveals four glinting gold front teeth – gold not for dental reasons but reasons of Kalderash aesthetics. Her limbs too are festooned with gold. And like almost all the Gypsy women here, she has a necklace made from large, gold Austro-Hungarian coins.Buzescu’s grand houses sprang up in 1990, after the Romanian revolution, she tells me as we stroll through the cavernous, marble-lined rooms of the house, past computers and large-screen TVs, retro- antique furniture imported from Italy, and pastoral tapestries on the walls. A marble-and-limestone staircase sweeps down four floors, its balustrades anchored in the hall by two statues of Greek archers; nearby is a small grove of plastic draped in tinsel.Before the revolution, she says, “We were afraid to show any signs of wealth, because Ceausescu would want to know where it came from.” The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu forced many Gypsies into government housing, that became ghettos and tried to suppress their culture. Many had their stashes of gold coins, accumulated through generations, confiscated by the notorious secret police, the Securitate.The Kalderash are modern alchemists, turning base metals into gold by harvesting the metal skeletons of the industrial behemoths of the communist era and selling them off. When Daniela’s husband, Stefan Mihai, joins us, he (like most Kalderash I met) doesn’t want to go into the specifics of his business – the line of the law is a rather blurred one in Romania’s transitional economy, and competition for contracts is fierce.Stefan says he has encountered very little anti-Gypsy prejudice, but like many wealthy Roma I met, he has a little of his own. “We absolutely won’t do business with any Roma we don’t know, because they are dangerous”.The image of “the dangerous Gypsy” is actively promoted by some Gypsies seeking to distance themselves from “bad elements” by acknowledging gadje fears. And it works both ways – the wealthy Kalderash in Buzescu scorn poor Gypsies, but in the next town I found a community of Fulgari Gypsies, who earn a precarious living by traveling in horse-drawn wagons to buy duck down from peasants and sell it to wholesalers. The Fulgari hold up their poverty as a proof of honesty. “The people of Buzescu,” scoffs their leader, Florea Sima, “they steal, but we are honest, the poor Gypsies are the honest ones. The rich do all the illegal business.”
The central idea of the passage is to show:
1) the conditions under which members of the Kalderash clan live.
2) the differences in the life style and wealth accumulated by the Gypsies in Romania before and after the revolution.
3) the treatment meted out to Gypsies who are poor, while the rich ones live an extravagantlife.
4)to project the image that is attached to Gypsies in general.
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