Arrangement of Sentence
MCQ Test
Important for
All Competitive Exams
Ques 1. 1. There was a lamp hanging
on the wall.
P. Then he picked a lot of jewels off the trees in the garden.
Q. He put the lamp inside his
shirt.
R. He put them in his pockets.
S. Alladdin climbed a ladder and
took down the lamp.
6. Then he put more jewels inside his shirt on top of the
lamp.
(1) PRQS
(2) RSPQ
(3) SQPR
(4) QSRP
Ques 2. 1. Gopal and Sheela felt very
bored one evening.
P. Gopal wanted to stay on for
the next show.
Q. So they decided to go to the
cinema.
R. They reached the theatre in
time for the interval.
S. On the way there was a
traffic jam.
6. But Sheela wanted to return
home.
(1) PSQR
(2) SQPR
(3) QSRP
(4) SQRP
Ques 3. 1. Ferdinand rose up to receive
the messenger.
P. At the end of his account he
was moved to tears.
Q. He fell on his knees and
thanked him.
R. He made him sit on a level
with himself.
S. He listened to the circumstantial account of his voyage.
6. It was a great conquest the
Almighty gave to a sovereign.
(1) RPSQ
(2) RSPQ
(3) QPRS
(4) PRSQ
Ques 4. 1. In order to judge the inside
of others, study your own
P. and though one has one’s
prevailing passion,
Q. for, men, in general are very
much alike
R. yet their operations are very
much the same
S. and another has another
6. and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends
you in others, will engage,
disgust, please or offend others in you.
(1) QPSR
(2) PQRS
(3) RQPS
(4) PRQS
Ques 5. 1. Paucity of funds
P. universities cannot make
Q. essentials like books
R. sufficient expenditure on
S. ordains that the
6. journals and equipment.
(1) QPRS
(2) SPRQ
(3) PQRS
(4) QSRP
Ques 6. 1. The symptoms of
P. and certain other changes
Q. what is popularly called
R. serious forgetfulness, confusion
S. “serility” include
6. in personality behaviour.
(1) QSRP
(2) PQRS
(3) SRQP
(4) QPSR
Ques 7. 1. When they heard the bell
P. out of his clothes
Q. as quickly
R. every boy scrambled
S. and got into bed
6. as possible
(1) QRPS
(2) PSQR
(3) RQSP
(4) RPSQ
Ques 8. 1. Thirty years from now
P. and industry will be scarce
Q. almost half of the people
R. that water for drinking,
farming
S. then living may find
6. according to a study by Dr.
S. Posten.
(1) SPQR
(2) SRPQ
(3) QSRP
(4) QSPR
Ques 9. 1. A good cry can be a
P. bring relief from anxiety
Q. prevent a headache or
R. and it might even
S. healthy way to
6. other physical consequence
(1) SRQP
(2) SRPQ
(3) SPRQ
(4) SPQR
Ques 10. 1. Long, long, time ago
P. who lived with his three
wives
Q. in a country called Kosala
R. there ruled a noble king
S. and four sons
6. beautiful, graceful and well
versed in all shastras.
(1) PQRS
(2) SPQR
(3) RQPS
(4) QRSP
Ques 11. (1) Einstein was a bad student.
(P) He attended classes regularly and took down careful
notes.
(Q)His friend Marcel Grossman,
on the other hand, was an irreproachable student.
(R) These notes he shared with
Einstein.
(S) He resented having to attend
lectures.
(6) If Einstein passed his examinations, it was only because
of Grossman.
(1) SQPR
(2) QRPS
(3) PSRQ
(4) RSQP
Ques 12. (1) Creating and modifying a
school timetable is a complex
task.
(P) ‘TT Plus’ closely models the
real world timetable creation
tasks.
(Q)So is the job of computerizing
it.
(R) All timetables can be viewed
on the screen before they are
actually printed.
(S) It has a comprehensive manual and useful glossary of
terms.
(6) It relieves you of the anxiety
to get it all right.
(1) QPSR
(2) RPSQ
(3) SPRQ
(4) PQSR
Ques 13. (1) Three painters competed for
a prize.
(P) Ram painted a curtain.
(Q) A butterfly came and sat on
the bunch of flowers – was
painted by Shyam.
(R) And an ox tried to eat from
the basket of apples – was
painted by Sohan.
(S) And the judge himself tried
to lift the curtain.
(6) So Ram got the prize.
(1) PSQR
(2) PQRS
(3) PSRQ
(4) QRPS
Ques 14. (1) The farmer wanted to please
the men.
(P) The poor donkey struggled
and kicked.
(Q) They tied his legs together
and slung him on a pole.
(R) The farmer and his son put
the ends of the pole on their
shoulders.
(S) He and his son got off the
donkey.
(6) They walked into the town
carrying the donkey.
(1) PQRS
(2) SQRP
(3) RSQP
(4) QSPR
Ques 15. (1) The wife is
(P) not the husband’s slave
(Q) but his companion and his
help-mate
(R) and an equal partner
(S) in all his joys and sorrows
and is
(6) as free as the husband to
choose her own path.
(1) QRSP
(2) PRQS
(3) QSRP
(4) PQRS
Ques 16. 1. I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation as far
as possible, from the tyranny of the here and the now.
P. If any one could, he would
hardly be able to remain
alive.
Q. But it is possible to make a
continual approach towards
impartiality.
R. No one can view the world
with complete impartiality.
S. This is of course a matter of
degree.
6. It is this approach towards
impartiality that constitutes
growth in wisdom.
(1) QRSP
(2) RQPS
(3) SRPQ
(4) PRSQ
Ques 17. 1. But at that moment I glanced
round at the crowd that had
followed me.
P. It was an immense crowd,
two thousand at the least
and growing every minute.
Q. They were watching me as
they would watch a conjurer about to perform a trick.
R. I looked at the sea of yellow
faces above the garish
clothes – faces all happy and
excited over this bit of fun,
all certain that the elephant
was going to be shot.
S. It blocked the road for a long
distance on either side.
6. They did not like me, but
with the magical rifle in my
hands, I was momentarily
worth watching
(1) RPQS
(2) QSRP
(3) SRPQ
(4) PSRQ
Ques 18. 1. There are many roads into
the world of books, but the
way of fiction is probably the
most common.
P. Then too the appeal of the
story, whether told as poem,
play, history, biography, or
novel is primitive and strong.
Q. The reason is plain.
R. They are to us what epic
poetry was to the Greeks
and Romans, what the stage
was to the Elizabethans.
S. The novel and the short story
come closer to the experience of the modern reader
than any other form of contemporary writing.
6 Mankind’s delight in stories is
as timeless and universal as the
art of the story teller.
(1) QSRP
(2) SRPQ
(3) RSQP
(4) PRSQ
Ques 19. 1. Nehru spent most part of his
childhood in studies.
P. He rushed back to India and
led an active political life joining hands with Gandhi.
Q. His studies went on uninterrupted abroad until he
received a call from India.
R. He went to Cambridge to
study.
S. But now and then, he could
not help listening to political discussions in his house.
6. Till the end of his career, he
made Gandhi his political
master.
(1) RSQP
(2) SRQP
(3) PQRS
(4) SRPQ
Ques 20. 1. Venice is a strange and
beautiful city in the north of
Italy.
P. There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the islands of Venice.
Q. In this city there are no motor-cars, no horses and no
buses.
R. These small islands are near
one another.
S. It is not one island but a
hundred and seventeen islands.
This is because Venice has no
streets.
(1) PQRS
(2) RSPQ
(3) SRPQ
(4) PSQR
Ques 21. 1. Education in India had a glorious beginning.
P. But after the British rule, it
faced many changes.
Q. It went on for centuries with
the same glory.
R. English as the medium of instruction had a very great response.
S. One of the changes was the
introduction of English as the
medium of instruction.
6. As the Britishers left we had
a complexity of opinions regarding English
(1) PQRS
(2) QPSR
(3) PQSR
(4) SRPQ
Ques 22. 1. It is easy to criticize the
people at the helm, for the
slow progress in every field.
P. We are well aware that the
intellectuals are leaving our
country for better employment opportunities.
Q. Then question remains unanswered because our country
cannot show opportunities to
the intellectuals.
R. Then, what about their obligation to the Motherland ?
S. First, we should ask ourselves as to what is happening to the young intellectuals
in India.
6. This situation of ‘Brain-Drain’
leads to a variety of problems.
(1) PSQR
(2) RPSQ
(3) PSRQ
(4) SPRQ
Ques 23. 1. It is the responsibility of parents to teach the young moral
values in life.
P. Many children take advantage
of their parents’ busy schedule.
Q. This results in children’s ignorance of social values.
R. The reason behind it is that
parents are quite busy nowadays.
S. Nowadays parents spend
very meagre time with children.
6. As such, the society is going
away from the value system.
(1) SRPQ
(2) PQRS
(3) SQRP
(4) SPQR
Ques 24. 1. The man who does his duty
without any selfish desire for
fruit may be called a sanyasi
as well as yogi.
P. The man who has achieved
much evenness of temper will
be serene, because his mere
thoughts are changed with
the strength of action.
Q. He would practise yoga, i.e.,
evenness of temper, and cannot but perform action.
R. The root of the matter is that
one should not allow his mind
to flit from object of desire to
another and from that to a
third.
S. But he who abstains from action altogether is only an idler.
6. A yogi is one who is not attached to his objects of sense
or to action and whose mind
has ceased to roam restlessly.
(1) SRQP
(2) RQPS
(3) QRSP
(4) PRSQ
Ques 25. 1. This was an important day for
Al at took.
P. It was a cold day, but Alatook
would be warm.
Q. For the first time he was going to hunt seals alone.
R. First he put on his fur-lined
jacket.
S. Then he put on mittens and
boots of deerskin to protect
his hands and feet from the
cold.
6. Finally he picked up the gun
he had cleaned so carefully
the day before.
(1) PQRS
(2) QPRS
(3) PRSQ
(4) QRPS
Ques 26. 1. The most vulnerable section
of the society are the students.
P. Revolutionary and new
fledged ideas have a great
appeal to them.
Q. Agitations may be non-violent
methods of protest.
R. They cannot resist the charm
of persuasion.
S. They are to be taught that
without discipline they cannot get proper education.
6. However if these become violent, the antisocial elements
get encouraged and they put
all proper working out of gear.
(1) PRSQ
(2) RSQP
(3) SRPQ
(4) RPQS
Ques 27. 1. Venice is a strange city.
P. There are about 400 odd
bridges connecting the islands of Venice.
Q. There are no motor cars, no
horses and no buses there.
R. These small islands are close
to one another.
S. It is not one island but a hundred islands.
6. This is because Venice has
no streets.
(1) SRPQ
(2) PSRQ
(3) RQPS
(4) QSRP
Ques 28. 1. One of the most terrible
battles of the American Civil
War was fought in July 1863,
at Gettysburg.
P. The chief speech on that occasion was given by Edward
Everett, a celebrated orator.
Q. Lincoln was asked to make a
few remarks.
R. In November of that year a
portion of the battlefield was
dedicated as a final resting
place for men of both armies
who died there.
S. Everett’s speech lasted 2
hours. Lincoln’s for 2 minutes; it was over almost before the crowd realized that
it had begun.
6. But the Gettysburg speech is
now one of the world’s immortal pieces of literature.
(1) SQRP
(2) RPQS
(3) PQRS
(4) QPSR
Ques 29. 1. The teacher training agency
in England hopes to make
teaching one of the top three
professions.
P. They have also demanded
that the campaign should be
matched by improved pay
scales, work load and morale
so as to avoid recruitment
problems with an aim to raise
the image of the teaching profession.
Q. A series of advertisements are
now being screened showing
famous people speaking
about teachers they remember and admire.
R. An amount of $100 million
has been set aside to combat
the shortage of applicants for
teacher training.
S. Teacher Unions have welcomed this campaign.
6. It is high time for the Indian
Government also to think on
similar lines and take steps
to lift up the sinking morale
of the teaching profession.
(1) QRPS
(2) RPSQ
(3) RQSP
(4) QPSR
Ques 30. 1. Some say that failure is like
toxic waste.
P. I see failure more as a fertilizer.
Q. Thinking about it pollutes and
undermines the attitudes
needed for success.
R. The seeds of success must
be planted afresh.
S. It can be used to enrich the
soil of your mind.
6. Turning failure into a fertilizer is accomplished by using your errors as steps in
learning.
(1) SRQP
(2) PQSR
(3) SPQR
(4) QPSR
Ques 31. 1. Today, the earth has many
satellites besides the moon.
P. But the pull of the earth
keeps them from doing so.
Q. The artificial satellites do not
fall because they are going
too fast to do so.
R. They are the artificial satellites made by man and very
much smaller than the moon.
S. As they speed along they tend
to go straight off into space.
6. As a result, they travel in an
orbit round the earth.
(1) QPSR
(2) PRQS
(3) SPQR
(4) RQSP
Ques 32. 1. Love is one of the earliest of
human passions.
P. It is also one of the sweetest.
Q. Love should be directed towards a worthy object.
R. But, like all strong passions
it may, if not well regulated
and controlled, lead us into
misery.
S. Or it will prove in the end a
source of bitterness.
6. Love, moreover, looks forward to reciprocation.
(1) RQPS
(2) PRQS
(3) PQSR
(4) QRPS
Ques 33. 1. A rocket burns a fuel that
makes a great deal of gas at
the back of the rocket.
P. Ordinary fuel will burn only
in air, because it needs the
oxygen in the air.
Q. A rocket can therefore travel
outside the atmosphere in
space where there is no air.
R. This gas pushes against the
rocket and sends it forward.
S. However, rocket fuels have
their oxygen in them and so
they burn without air.
6. In fact, it will travel faster in
space than in the air because
the friction of the air is not
there to slow it down.
(1) QSRP
(2) RPSQ
(3) SQPR
(4) PRQS
Ques 34. 1. Some of the other patrons are
even more of a problem than
the theatre itself.
P. They make noises and create disturbances at their
seats.
Q. Some act as if they were at
home in their own living room
watching the TV set.
R. People are often messy, so
that you’re constantly aware
of all the food they’re eating.
S. Many people in the theatre
often show themselves to be
inconsiderate.
6. People are also always moving around near you, creating a disturbance and interrupting your enjoyment of
the movie.
(1) SPQR
(2) PSRQ
(3) QRSP
(4) RSQP
Ques 35. 1. A friend’s rudeness is much
more damaging than a
stranger’s.
P. You feel hurt instead of angry.
Q. You feel that you’re being
taken for granted.
R. When a friend says sharply,
“I don’t have time to talk to
you just now.”
S. When a friend shows up late
for lunch or a shopping trip,
with no good reason,
6. Friends after all, are supposed to make up for the
thoughtless cruelties of
strangers.
(1) RPSQ
(2) PRSQ
(3) SPQR
(4) QSPR
Ques 36. 1. The only choice
P. universities will be to
Q. tuition fees to meet
R. left before the Indian
S. substantially raise the
6. the rising expenditure
(1) RPSQ
(2) PQSR
(3) SQRP
(4) QPSR
Ques 37. 1. The salmon fish pushed
themselves
P. to return to their spawning
grounds
Q. and fertilized them
R. but once they laid their eggs
S. to their limits
6. they died
(1) SQPR
(2) RSQP
(3) SPRQ
(4) RPSQ
Ques 38. 1. One of my friends Krishnan
went to live in a village.
P. But it was a very slow animal.
Q. So Krishnan bought a donkey for 200 rupees.
R. One day his new neighbour
told him that he must buy a
donkey.
S. Every family there had a
donkey to carry things for
them.
6. It did not like to work.
(1) SQPR
(2) RSQP
(3) QPRS
(4) PRSQ
Ques 39. 1. The next morning I found
myself somewhat refreshed
but very hungry.
P. I asked him to let me help
unload the vessel.
Q. I noticed I was near a large
ship.
R. I went at once to the captain.
S. It was unloading a cargo of
pig iron.
6. I wanted to earn money for
food.
(1) PQRS
(2) QSRP
(3) PRSQ
(4) SRPQ
Ques 40. 1. He could not rise.
P. All at once, in the distance,
he heard an elephant trumpet.
Q. He tried again with all his
might but to no use.
R. The next moment he was on
his feet.
S. He stepped into the river.
6. It was colder than usual.
(1) PQSR
(2) PRQS
(3) QPRS
(4) QPSR
ANSWERS
Q1 C
Q2 C
Q3 B
Q4 A
Q5 B
Q6 A
Q7 D
Q8 C
Q9 C
Q10 C
Q11 A
Q12 A
Q13 B
Q14 B
Q15 D
Q16 C
Q17 D
Q18 A
Q19 B
Q20 C
Q21 B
Q22 D
Q23 A
Q24 A
Q25 B
Q26 A
Q27 A
Q28 B
Q29 C
Q30 D
Q31 D
Q32 B
Q33 B
Q34 C
Q35 A
Q36 A
Q37 C
Q38 B
Q39 B
Q40 C
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