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Verbal Shot of 20-Oct-09

Select the option that contains the correct sequence of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

A. One turn on the left and I reach a different place altogether.
B. I am easily guided through the ticket counter to the platform.
C. I, too, stand there in childish anticipation of the unknown.
D. There is chaos all around with vehicles honking all over.
E. Other expectant faces greet me as I wait to begin my first journey on the metro train.

a) ABCDE
b) DBACE
c) BDAEC
d) DABEC


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Verbal Shot of 29-Sep-09

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. The fact all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution.
B. How things are in the world is a matter of complete indifference for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world.
C. To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole-a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole-it is this that is mystical.
D. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.

a) ABCD
b) BACD
c) BADC
d) CADB
e) CDAB


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Verbal Shot of 19-Sep-09

Choose the option which has the order of sentences required to form a coherent paragraph.

A. One of the more clandestine games to be played in Athens this August is the competition between the anti-doping laboratories and the drug cheats.
B. Rusedski was cleared of any wrong-doing this March after he argued that he had unwittingly taken contaminated electrolyte supplements supplied by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
C. Yet the source of some of these positive drug tests may be over-the-counter medications and nutritional supplements, rather than banned drugs.
D. This time, one can expect hormones such as anabolic steroids, testosterone, growth hormones and erythropoietin to make the headlines.
E. This was the case for several tennis players, including UK star Greg Rusedski, who tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolene last year.
F. This experience shows that finding the right balance between catching those who knowingly cheat and setting impossible standards is a considerable challenge.

a) AEDCBF
b) ADCEBF
c) ACEBDF
d) AECDBF


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Verbal Shot of 09-Sep-09

Choose the option that rearranges the sentences to form a coherent passage.

A. It is important that citizens must obey the law.
B. It is even more important for citizens to obey the high standards of decency which aren't enforced by law.
C. This feeling of obedience to the unenforceable is the true hallmark of a mature democracy.
D. Beyond legally enforceable laws, there is a vast range of significant behaviour the law cannot enforce.
E. It will be a long time before such standards of mature public conduct prevail in India.

a) ABCDE
b) DABEC
c) ABDCE
d) BADCE


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Verbal Shot of 30-Aug-09

Choose the option that rearranges the sentences to form a coherent passage.

A. Some people were initially afraid that telephone would reduce face to face contact between two people.
B. The Internet has redefined boundaries and strengthened cultural ties.
C. Similarly, a lot of people feared that the Internet would depersonalise experience.
D. On the flip side, it has become difficult to censor the matter on the Net.
E. But in reality, both the modes have increased contact between people.

a) ACBED
b) CEABD
c) ACEBD
d) ABCDE


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Verbal Shot of 22-Aug-09

Choose the option that rearranges the sentences to form a coherent passage.

A.Business today cries out for more field marshals willing to accept responsibilities for planning a total marketing programme.
B.The key characteristic of a marketing general is flexibility.
C. He must be flexible enough to adjust the strategy to the situation and not vice versa.
D. 'Let's go with what we know will work' is a weakness in a general.
E. Risk-taking should be an integral part of his fibre, leading to innovation.

a) ABCDE
b) BACED
c) ACEBD
d) ABCED


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Verbal Shot of 12-Aug-09

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Moreover, as software is often built on the achievements of others, writing code could become a legal hurdle race.
B. Critics claim that such intellectual monopolies hinder innovation, because software giants can use them to attack fledgling competitors.
C. By analogy, if Haydn had patented the symphony form, Mozart would have been in trouble.
D. The of patents for software and business methods has been causing a stir in America ever since the Patents and Trademark Office started issuing patents on internet methods in 1998, most famously that for one-click shopping.
E. Proponents argue that these patents provide the necessary incentive to innovate at a time when more inventions are computer related.

a) DBCAE
b) DEBAC
c) DECBA
d) DBEAC


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Verbal Shot of 28-Jul-09

Arrange the sentences A, B, C, D, E and F to form a logical sequence.

A. Never mind if Nepal had the tallest ones in the world - who cared about tall when there were more important things to think about, like cleanliness and hygiene.
B. Prakash Babu was returning from Switzerland.
C. Everybody was sure the mountains of Switzerland must somehow be a little bit better, a little bit nicer, a little bit more civilized, than their own poor, benighted country's.
D. That twin land of mountains, that mirror image of peaks, but so much more Westernized, so much more modern, than Nepal's own mythologically burdened ones.
E. That land of miraculous clocks which always told the time in minute precision, not like the few minutes late, few minutes early time of Nepal.
F. Who cared about tall when you could have the cleanest, most sanitized, most modern mountains in the world.

a) BEDCAF
b) BDEACF
c) CAFBED
d) BECDFA


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Verbal Shot of 25-Jul-09

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.

1. The modern era may be said to have begun about the year 1895.
A. So great a revolution in scientific thought has not occurred since Copernicus showed that the earth went round the sun.
B. The first step was the experimental demonstration that there exist little electrified bodies very much smaller than a hydrogen atom.
C. Between that year and the year 1900, those researches were begun which have changed our whole conception of matter.
D. Further, these studies have changed our whole idea of the meaning and purpose of physical science.
6. These little bodies were produced by passing an electric current through a glass tube almost entirely exhausted of air.

a) CABD
b) BDCA
c) ACDB
d) CDAB


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Verbal Shot of 15-Jul-09

Question has a four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following
Facts(F): Which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read.
Inference(I): Which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of know.
Judgement(J): Which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future

A. It feels great to start one's Mondays in back in Mumbai
B. The day begins with the now-too-familier deadlines and crisis calls and coordination and chaos and cacophony that investment banking is all about.
C. I'm just three quarters of a draft document that i have to review and keep ready for a meeting later in the day.
D. Life's beautiful,life's perfect.
a)JFFJ
b)JJFJ
c)JFJJ
d)JIJJ
e)JIJF


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