Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
A. The evidence on the benefits of the interlinking scheme is mixed. On the one hand the project is built on hopes that it will boost per capita water availability for 220mn water-hungry Indians.
B. The initial plan to interlink India’s rivers came in 1858 from a British irrigation engineer, Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton.
C. The scheme also envisions an area more than twice the size of Andhra Pradesh receiving additional water for irrigation and to eventually even out the precarious swings between floods and droughts.
D. And concerns surrounding escalating cost projections, which have reportedly jumped to something closer to Rs. 11 lakh crore.
E. Yet even as the project moves forward it must consider the risks at hand, which include the possibility that it could displace nearly 1.5 million people due to the submergence of 27.66 lakh hectares of land;
F. Since late last year, the scheme has been implemented by the Central government in several segments such as the Godavari-Krishna interlink in Andhra Pradesh, and the Ken-Betwa interlink in Madhya Pradesh.
1. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) F
2. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) F
3. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) F
4. Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
5. Which of the following should be the SIXTH (last) sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A (b) B (c) C (d)D (e) E
Directions (6-10): The Following questions have two
blanks, each blank indicating that something has been
omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best
fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
6. As this country has become more ………… industrial
and internationalised, it has like all Western
democracies, experienced a necessary increase in the
…………. of the executive.
(a) urbanised; role
(b) objective; wealth
(c) synthesised; efficiency
(d) civilised;
convenience
(e) concretised; vision
7. When interpersonal problems …………… but are not
dealt with, the organisation's productivity inevitably
……….
(a) surface; develops
(b) focus; increases
(c) establish; projects
(d) develop; exhibits
(e) exist; diminishes
8. Participative management, in which everyone has
……….. into a decision that a leader then makes, is a
mechanism for …………… employees.
(a) share; protecting
(b) value; thwarting
(c) motivation; involving
(d) reward; stimulating
(e) input; empowering
9. Lack of ………… is basic to good teamwork, but our
ability to work with others depends on our ………
(a)rigidity; compatibility
(b)dogmatism; motivation
(c) professionalism; vulnerability
(d) positivism; flexibility
(e) consideration; acumen
10. Complete the constant openness is a notion that can be
…………. to absurdity . Am I…………. to stop everyone on
the street and tell them my reaction to their
appearance?
(a) consigned; communicated
(b) reduced; required
(c) attributed; requested
(d) projected; destined
(e) subjected; confined
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