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Puys,
Please carry on all Parajumbles related discussions in this thread. 😃
This thread is exclusively dedicated to discuss and practice Para-jumbles. 
Here is the link to the previous years thread:
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A. Scientists feel that hunting and the trade in body parts are the most serious threat facing the polar bear.B. So, why is the polar bear in grave danger?C. The bear has been hunted since times immemorial by indigenous Arctic people.D. It mainly faces threats such as habitat loss due to global warming and continuing human incursions.E. But they never hunted the species in excess of their requirements.
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- BDACE
- ACEDB
- BADCE
- DACEB
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A.Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B.The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C.A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.
D.These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.
E.A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.
1. ABCDE 2. CABDE 3. ACBED 4. CBEDA
A.With that, I swallowed the shampoo, and obtained most realistic results on the spot.
B.The man shuffled away into the back regions to make up a prescription, and after a moment I got through on the shop-telephone to the Consulate, intimating my location.
C.Then, while the pharmacist was wrapping up a six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and inquired whether he could give me something for acute gastric cramp.
D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack, and entering an old-fashioned pharmacy, I asked for a popular shampoo mixture, consisting of olive and flaked soap.
1. DCBA 2. DACB 3. BDAC 4. BCDA
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Direction for questions 41 to 44:
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in-between are labelled A, B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences 1 to 6.
41. 1. Indias experience of industrialisation is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly independent developing country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under-developed country with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious, deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international community of nations if measured in terms of purchasing power.
D. Even today, however, the benefits of Indian industralisation since independence have not reached the masses.
6. Industrialisation in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without development.
a. CDAB b. DCBA c. CABD d. BACD
42. 1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last 45 years since the liquidation of the British empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particularly India and Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washingtons military alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered the military junta of that country to stub out the civilian government and destroy democracy in Pakistan.
a. ACBD b. ABDC c. CBAD d. DCAB
43. 1. The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context, it would have been more appropriate, if the concept of accelerated depreciation, together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and artificial disallowances of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in Indian tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost to the government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be prohibitive.
a. ADBC b. BCDA c. CBDA d. DBAC
44. 1. All human beings are aware of the existence of a power greater than that of the mortals the name given to such a power by individuals is an outcome of birth, education and choice.
A. Logically, therefore such a power should be remembered in good times also.
B. Their other philanthropic contributions include the construction and maintenance of religious places such as temples or gurudwaras.
C. Industrial organisations also contribute to the veneration of this power by participating in activities such as religious ceremonies and festivities organised by the employees.
D. This power provides an anchor in times of adversity, difficulty and trouble.
6. The top management/managers should participate in all such events, irrespective of their personal choice.
a. CADB b. BCAD c. DACB d. DBCA
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In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/paragraph labeled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labeled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
47.
A.In Mr. Depps portrayal, words come first in the shaping of a phrase.
B.But too many opera singers are overly focused on making beautiful sounds and sending notes soaring at the expense of crisp diction and textual clarity.
C. These principles of vocal artistry matter just as much onstage, as the best operatic artists understand.
D. They could learn something from Mr. Depps verbally dynamic singing.
E.Expression, nuance, intention and controlled intensity matter more than vocal richness and sustaining power.
(1) BCDE (2) BDCE (3) BDEC (4) ECBD (5) DCEB
48.
A. Although the cyber coolie metaphor may be overdrawn, many voice and non-voice agents do report that they experience their work as contributing to exit and burnout.
B. Yet, the existing distinctive characteristics of the Indian BPO industry embody significant pressures: nocturnal call-handling for overseas customers, long commuting times, extended shifts and unpaid overtime, all of which have health and work-life balance implications.
C. The outcome of these imply increasing pressure on workers: longer shifts, shorter and fewer breaks and tighter targets.
D. In recent times, many employees have experienced an intensification of work, stemming from sharpened competition in the outsourcing market, affecting both captives and third parties, rising costs in India and reducing margins.
E. While companies have sought to realise cost savings through economies of scale, concomitant with this has been this focus on leveraging efficiencies through managing productivity and utilisation.
(1) BCDE (2) BCED (3) CDEB (4) CBDE (5) DECB
49.
A. The very meaning and mission of deconstruction is to show that things do not have definable meanings and determinable missions, that they are always more than any mission would impose, that they exceed the boundaries they currently occupy.
B. A meaning or a mission is a way to contain and compact things, like a nutshell, gathering them into a unity, whereas deconstruction bends all its efforts to stretch beyond these boundaries, to transgress these confines, to interrupt and disjoin all such gathering.
C. What is really going on in things, what is really happening, is always to come.
D.Whenever it runs up against a limit , deconstruction presses against it. Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.
E. Every time you try to stabilise the meaning of a thing, to fix in its missionary position, the thing
itself, if there is anything at all to it, slips away.
(1) CDBE (2) BECD (3) BDCE (4) BCDE (5) CEBD
50.
A. Notably, same-sex relationships, whether between men or women, were far more egalitarian than heterosexual ones.
B. While the gay and lesbian couples had about the same rate of conflict as the heterosexual ones, they appeared to have more relationship satisfaction, suggesting that the inequality of opposite-sex relationships can take a toll.
C.Heterosexual married women live with a lot of anger about having to do the tasks not only in the house but in the relationship. Thats very different from what same-sex couples and heterosexual men live with.
D.With same-sex couples, of course, none of these dichotomies were possible, and the partners tended to share the burdens far more equally.
E.In heterosexual couples, women did far more of the housework; men were more likely to have the financial responsibility; and men were more likely to initiate sex, while women were more likely to refuse it or to start a conversation about problems in the relationship.
(1) EDBC (2) DBCE (3) CDEB (4) BCDE (5) CDEB
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A curved titanium plate with five tiny screws would hold the bone in place and help reform the damaged margin of the eye.
B. Deftly, he replaced the wedge of bone in Tenneh's face.
C. Intravenous antibiotics would take care of any lingering infection.
D. When he'd eliminated most of the diseased tissue, he stopped.
1) ABCD 2) DCAB 3) DCBA 4) ACBD
1) I knew we were right, Neil Simon thought to himself as the steward brought him a glass of Cardhu single malt.
A. Simon, the Director in charge of international franchise operations at Smith & Robin, a $8-billion marquee garment retailer, had arrived in India exactly seven days back with mixed feelings.
B. The whiskey felt good after a week when he was allowed to drink nothing but champagne by his hosts in India.
C. Simon signaled to the steward that he'd like a refill - he planned to take his time over the second one - and thought about the week that had been.
D. Ah, but then they had had a reason to celebrate.
E. He'd been at S & R less than eight months - he had been hired when the company decided to abandon its twenty-year-old strategy of expanding geographically through owned outlets as against franchised ones - but he knew the India trip was one of those things that could make or break his career.
1] ABCDE 2] CDAEB 3] ECBDA 4] BDCAE
A. What's a jarwal?
B. The jarwal stared at her malevolently; saliva dripping from its gaping jaws, making its fearsome teeth glistens in the harsh winter sunlight.
C. I don't know.
D. A bit like in Alien, only more like the maggot.
E. Something fierce and nasty.
F. A huge maggot-like beastie with a ferocious temper and huge teeth.
1] ACEBDF 2] AECBDE 2] BACEDF 4] BACEFD
A.Then come revisionist assessment when they are subjected to criticism,fair and unfair.
B.All great leaders are subjected to fluctuating evaluation after their death.
C.Thereafter follows the period of balanced judgement.
D.In the years immediately after their demise, they are extolled.
1.BADC
2.CADB
3.CBDA
4.BDAC
5.DCAB
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- 21. - A. He also mentions the existential burdens on his brother with as much delicacy as the subject will permit.
B. Many will be disappointed that there is little introspective dwelling on his relationship with Hillary.
C. Even from the early part of his life, he seems to have inspired extraordinary loyalty from his friends, most of whom he managed to involve in his presidency.
D. They will be disappointed because his early life in Arkansas is particularly well told.
E. The early life contains description of his troubled family life with an abusive stepfather, the dilemmas of his mother.
a. ABEDC b. BEDAC c. ABCDE d. BDECA
- 22. - A. Two and a half years ago, her father received the grim news that he was suffering from the early symptoms of Alzheimer's.
B. She is focusing on her other career as a successful children's book author.
C. Her latest, What's Happening to Grandpa? is a touching, compassionate story about a young girl who learns her grandfather is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
D. As an author, she has taken up the challenge of tackling subjects that kids often don't understand and parents don't know how to talk about.
E. Sadly, this book like her past two children's best-sellers What's Heaven? And What's wrong with Timmy? - stems from a firsthand family drama.
a. BDCEA b. BEDCA c. ABEDC d. None of the above
- 23. - A. There are other dark rumours about the Spetsnaz.
B. Officially, Russian law strictly regulates the treatment of Chechen prisoners, even those suspected of terrorism.
C. In practice, units are given a high degree of autonomy.
D. I have never heard specific allegations, but Russian forces in Chechnya have been accused of torture and extra judicial killings.
E. This autonomy has been blamed as a ruse for taking recourse to methods, which are primitive, often brutal and sometimes fatal.
F. My questions about allegations of torture are met with shrugs because no reporter, especially a foreign one, could hope to dig out the dirty secrets of the Spetsnaz's past.
a. AEDCBF b. ABCEDF c. AEDBCF d. ADECBF
- 24. - A. Whitney's personal life at that time is less well documented.
B. The couple had no children.
C. 1930 he married Mary Elizabeth Altemus, a society beauty with a passion for dogs and horses, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1940.
D. Betsey had recently divorced James Roosevelt, the elder son of the former president, Theodore Roosevelt.
E. But in 1942 he married the glamorous Betsey Cushing, one of three sisters who had been known in New York as 'the East Side Gabors'.
F. She loved art and antiques and shopping for them, and the marriage to Whitney produced, if no children, a staggering procession of art acquisitions.
a. AEDBCF b. AEBCDF c. ACBEDF d. AEDCBF
- 25. - A. It was in the late-1980s Boston, 'a rock town', that Meritt formed the Magnetic Fields with Harvard student Claudia Gonson, an outspoken classically trained pianist, and they began releasing home-produced albums of Merrit's artful compositions.
B. And I say, "What, you mean that suicidal song of despair that advises you to kill yourself immediately rather than go on for one more moment?"
C. Today, although he has found critical acclaim, he does not harvest much pleasure from the devotion his music inspires.
D. 'They say, "That song you wrote really helped me through a break-up."
E. To his mind, people don't really listen to it.
F. He frowns, "It's an unrewarding way of communicating with people."
a. ACEDBF b. AEDBCF c. ADBECF d. AECBDF
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Given below is a paragraph from which one of the intermediate sentences has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Monitoring programmes show evidence of changes in one place over a few years or decades, but they are already being made more difficult by the impact climate change is having on the distribution of organisms - and thus on biodiversity - at any particular place on the planet. ______________________This is where scientific collections such as those in natural history museums and herbaria can make a unique contribution. These vast, painstakingly assembled collections of animals and plants are more than mere relics: they offer snapshots of past biodiversity. a. When it comes to longer-term changes, monitoring clearly cannot help. b. Monitoring can help record the effects of climate change on biodiversity. c. Rapid changes in climate are impacting biodiversity by producing rapid changes in organisms. d. When organisms are monitored over long periods of time, scientists fail to see the minute changes.
Given below is a paragraph from which one of the intermediate sentences has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Monitoring programmes show evidence of changes in one place over a few years or decades, but they are already being made more difficult by the impact climate change is having on the distribution of organisms - and thus on biodiversity - at any particular place on the planet. ______________________This is where scientific collections such as those in natural history museums and herbaria can make a unique contribution. These vast, painstakingly assembled collections of animals and plants are more than mere relics: they offer snapshots of past biodiversity. a. When it comes to longer-term changes, monitoring clearly cannot help. b. Monitoring can help record the effects of climate change on biodiversity. c. Rapid changes in climate are impacting biodiversity by producing rapid changes in organisms. d. When organisms are monitored over long periods of time, scientists fail to see the minute changes.
Para Completion doubt:
The Ripper murders mark an important watershed in modern British life. Whilst not the first serial killer, Jack the Ripper's case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy. Reforms to the stamp act in 1855 had enabled the publication of inexpensive newspapers with wider circulation. These mushroomed later in the Victorian era to include mass-circulation newspapers as cheap as a halfpenny, along with popular magazines such as the Illustrated Police News, making the Ripper the beneficiary of previously unparalleled publicity.
1) It was possibly the beginning of sensational journalism in the world. 2) Hence, Jack the Ripper remained a mysterious character for years to come. 3) This, combined with the fact that no one was ever convicted of the murders, created a legend that cast a shadow over later serial killers. 4) Hence, we can see that media frenzy is part & parcel of all public investigations. 5) This shows that media frenzy only hampers investigations.
Each question consists of four sentences on a topic. These sentences when read together constitute a paragraph. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s). A. Tomatoes eaten raw might not be so healthy, says a new study, because our digestive tract can only process a tiny amount of lycopene, an antioxidant found in tomatoes. B. Antioxidants are dietary substances found in beta carotene, vitamins C and E and selenium. C. They prevent damage to the cells in our body or reverse damage after it has been done. D. The study found that although around 75 percent of the total antioxidants were released, this included only four percent of the lycopene found on the raw tomato.a. B and C b. C and A c. Only D d. None of the above
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