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Q #31
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Directions: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the six given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. Ethnography has long been used in the academic world, and was first employed in commercial research in the 70s. 
  2. “I spent time with different consumers while they were shopping, cooking and eating in their own home”.
  3. “Perhaps the difference now is that a great deal of market research is not conducted solely at a single point in time.”
  4. Anne-Marie McDermott, managing director of Quaestor Research, points to a project 13 years ago, which looked at a new chicken-burger product.
  5. “This method of conducting research was revolutionary at the time”.
  6. “Researchers spend a lot of time with respondents, living in their environment – even to the point of moving in with them and sharing the experience being researched”, she says.


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Explanation: The first sentence describes ethnography and traces how it was first incorporated into mainstream research. Sentence D then takes it a step forward and mentions a research person who talks about how she first used it 13 years ago. The rest of the sentences are quotes made by her and are easier to understand in terms of the sequence. Sentence B then talks about her approach and sentence E is a comment on how this was perceived at the time. Sentence C is a reflective comment on how the times have changed with the last sentence F describing specific instances of the same.

Q #32
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Directions: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the six given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. In general, the British Internet boom mirrored what had happened on the other side of the Atlantic a year or two earlier.
  2. Lastminute.com shared all of these attributes.
  3. This was a replay of events twelve months previously, when the US market witnesses Priceline.com issuing stock on the Nasdaq and ending its first day as a public company worth almost 10 bn $.
  4. In March 2000, for example, Lastminute.com, the most widely-hyped of all British companies, issued stock on the London Stock Exchange and achieved a valuation, albeit fleetingly, of more than 800 mn $.
  5. Priceline.com allowed airlines and hotels to unload their spare capacity cheaply online; it made heavy losses; and Morgan Stanley, a leading Wall Street investment bank, marketed its shares to the public.
  6. The principal difference between the British bubble and the American bubble was one of scale.


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Explanation: The first sentence describes an observation. Out of the options provided, sentence D presents an example of a company in London issuing stock and is the next sentence. Sentence C comments introduces an analogy with an American company which went through the same “sequence of events”. Sentence E then goes on to describe the fate of Priceline and sentence B mentions how these attributes were shared with Lastminute.com. sentence F qualifies the comment made in the first sentence by highlighting a difference between the two bubbles.

Q #33
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Directions: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the six given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. An old and semi-apocryphal story is routinely doing the rounds at the elections
  2. The nub of the story is this: Sir Peter’s association sought to dissuade him from standing on the grounds of his advanced age, reasoning that, should he die mid- term, the cash-strapped Tories of Louth would not be able to bear the cost of fighting a by-election.
  3. It concerns negotiations between Sir Peter Tapsell, the 74-year old Conservative member for Louth and his constituency association, ahead of the forthcoming general election.
  4. Sir Peter is said to have a written a personal cheque for the estimated 10,000 $ cost of a by election campaign 
  5. He posted it along with the instruction that it is cashed in the event of his death.
  6. This is seen as one more instance of his wit and ability to create hype about his candidature.


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Explanation: The opening sentence introduces the existence of a story. Sentence C then goes on to mention who the story is about. Sentence B tells the reader about the plot of this story and sentence D then describes Sir Peter’s reaction to a set of events. Sentence E completes the account of his action

Q #34
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Directions: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the six given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. More than thirty years have passed since the advent of the theory of plate tectonics.
  2. Rigid plates and the narrow, deformable boundaries dividing them explain much of the action on the earth’s surface.
  3. In their paper on this issue, Steinberger et al integrate these processes and make them relevant to both field geologists and geodynamicists.
  4. In addition, plumes of hot material rising from great depth in the mantle are thought to feed ‘hotspots’, producing surface tracks of volcanism in the middle of plates, and regions of very active mid-ocean-ridge volcanism.
  5. Complicating this picture are zones of deformation, such as the Basin and Range province in the US, that exist within supposedly rigid plates.
  6. Their work centres on the Hawaiian-emperor bend, a kink in the chain of islands and seamounts that was produced 43-50 million years ago.


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Explanation: The first sentence introduces the theory and sentence B mentions a part of this theory. Sentence D adds another variable (‘In Addition’) and sentence C talks about Steinberger and his colleagues who have worked on this and this is the second last sentence as the last sentence mentions “their work”.

Q #35
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Directions: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the six given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. Computer glitches would be a lot less annoying if the machines were programmed to acknowledge errors gracefully when something goes wrong, instead of merely flashing a brusque ‘you goofed’ message.
  2. JengTzeng took inspiration from this thought and is researching the area.
  3. The trick, according to many studies, which have dealt with analysis of users’ responses to their computers, is to make software more “civilized” by saying sorry more often.
  4. That way people won’t feel they are stupid or at fault, as they become less apprehensive about using computers, and perhaps more productive and creative.
  5. He wondered if people would be more forgiving of more courteous computers.
  6. To find out, Tzeng wrote two versions of a computer-based guessing game — one apologetic and the other brusque — and asked 269 high-school students to play one or the other.


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Explanation: The first sentence begins by talking about the fact that computer glitches are seen to be very offensive, and sentence C talks about the inference derived from this. Sentence D explicates upon this and sentence B mentions one of the researchers who is working on these lines, his work is further mentioned in sentence