NDA ENGLISH QUIZ

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Question 1:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. The second act was the more important: among other things it enabled previously disfranchised blacks in 1973 to elect Mr Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, with the help of a fifth of the white voters, and thus to become the first black mayor of a major southern city.
B. By some measures Mr Jackson had a privileged background.
C. It was 1964 before the Civil Rights Act was passed and 1965 before the Voting Rights Act followed.
D. But their privilege did not extend to the right to vote, nor to sit at the front of buses, nor to eat lunch at counters next to whites.
E. His father, a Baptist minister, came from an influential family in Dallas, his mother from another in Atlanta; both parents had been university-educated.

Question 2:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Joana, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says.
B. But she considers herself to be "more or less black".
C. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino.
D. Joana's ambiguity about her race is quintessentially Brazilian.
E. Brazil had slavery, but never apartheid or the formal segregation of the American south.

Question 3:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Brazilian racism is like a gun at the back of the head rather than one pointed between the eyes, says Jose Vicente, president of Afrobras, an NGO.
B. Brazil's former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist whose work helped puncture the myth of racial democracy, introduced quotas into the federal administration.
C. Brazil's informal racism has not created a popular civil-rights movement of the sort that rallied black and white Americans during the $1960 \mathrm{~s}$.
D. As the idea spreads, sympathetic whites are growing uneasy.
E. Instead it has created a black movement, composed largely of activist NGOs, which is lobbying government with increasing success.

Question 4:

The question below consists of a set of labeled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: because our school had shown
R: last Wednesday,
Q: our headmaster gave us a holiday
S: brilliant results in the High School Examination

Question 5:

The question below consists of a set of labeled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
$P$ : deal of noise and in the
Q: confusion I could hardly
R: make out the cause of quarrel
S: the people were making a great

Question 6:


The question below consists of a set of labeled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

P: but a closer analysis would reveal that adversity has its own advantages.

Q: everybody wants to live in joy, peace and plenty.

R: nobody wants to fall in the grip of adversity.

S: normally adversity is a dreaded thing.

Question 7:

Some parts of a sentence have been jumbled up, and labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
Since the 1960 s,
P: in the US and whisky for aged grain
Q: American writers have increasingly
R: used whiskey as the accepted spelling
S: for aged grain spirits made
spirits made outside the US.

Question 8:

Some parts of a passage have been jumbled up, and labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful passage.
Chauvinism is a form of extreme patriotism and nationalism and a belief in national superiority and glory.
P. it can also be defined as "an irrational belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people"
Q. male chauvinism is the belief that men are superior to women
R. it refers to the maintenance of fixed beliefs and attitudes of male superiority
S. moreover, the chauvinist's own people are seen as unique and special while the rest of the people are considered weak or inferior
It is associated with overt or covert depreciation of women.

Question 9:

Some parts of a passage have been jumbled up, and labelled $P, Q, R$ and $S$. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful passage.
While we tend to use the terms "sociopath" and "psychopath" interchangeably, they mean different things.
P. every antisocial person does not have psychopathy
Q. psychopathy is the extreme end of the antisocial spectrum
R. while a psychopath is cold and calculating, sometimes even charming
S. when comparing sociopaths vs. psychopaths, most sociopaths are prone to impulsive behaviour and often seen as disturbed or unhinged
But virtually all psychopaths are antisocial.

Question 10:

Some parts of a sentence have been jumbled up, and labelled $P, Q, R$ and $S$. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
Tourism brings large amounts
$P$ : of payment for goods and services needed by tourists, accounting
Q: as of 2011 for 30 percent of the world's trade
$R$ : of income into a local economy in the form
S: in services, and, as an invisible export
of goods and services.