The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Don’t you think that the housefly is a nuisance? S6: When you see a fly rubbing its legs together, it is just cleaning itself, and scraping off some of the material that has gathered there. P: For ages, that’s what man considered the fly to be — just a nuisance. Q: It was discovered that these flies carried disease germs that cause the death of millions of people every year. R: But now we know that the innocent-looking housefly is one of man’s worst enemies. S: It makes an irritating buzzing sound; it annoys you when it crawls on your skin; and so on. The proper sequence should be
The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Don’t you think that the housefly is a nuisance? S6: When you see a fly rubbing its legs together, it is just cleaning itself, and scraping off some of the material that has gathered there. P: For ages, that’s what man considered the fly to be — just a nuisance. Q: It was discovered that these flies carried disease germs that cause the death of millions of people every year. R: But now we know that the innocent-looking housefly is one of man’s worst enemies. S: It makes an irritating buzzing sound; it annoys you when it crawls on your skin; and so on. The proper sequence should be Correct Answer S P R Q
From S1 and S6 it is easy to assume that the sentence is a part of a narrative and could possibly be a story or description of an event.
The correct sequence should be SPRQ and after the rearrangement, the paragraph should read like:
Don’t you think that the housefly is a nuisance? It makes an irritating buzzing sound; it annoys you when it crawls on your skin; and so on. For ages, that’s what man considered the fly to be — just a nuisance. But now we know that the innocent-looking housefly is one of man’s worst enemies. It was discovered that these flies carried disease germs that cause the death of millions of people every year. When you see a fly rubbing its legs together, it is just cleaning itself, and scraping off some of the material that has gathered there.