PARA JUMBLES

A. With that, I swallowed the shampoo, and obtained the most realistic results almost on the spot.

B. The man shuffled away into the back regions to make up a prescription, and after a moment I got through on the shop-telephone to the Consulate, intimating my location.

C. Then, while the pharmacist was wrapping up a six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and inquired whether he could give me something for acute gastric cramp.

D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack, and entering an old-fashioned pharmacy, I asked for a popular shampoo mixture, consisting of olive oil and flaked soap.

• DCBA

• DACB

• BDAC

• BCDA

1. Making people laugh is tricky.

A. At times, the intended humour may simply not come off.

B. Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds.

C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do not even begin to set the cash tills ringing.

D. Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.

• ABCD

• BADC

• CDBA

• DCBA

(P) biodiversity, and change in climatic pattern thus

(Q) Man through his tools

(R) leading to environmental degradation

(S) has caused depletion of

• PQRS

• QSPR

• PQSR

• RPSQ

(P) development is necessary for a better future

(Q) Conservationists have the view that

(R) in ways that are not wasteful

(S) but only when the changes occur

• SPRQ

• QPSR

• RQPS

• PQRS

A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn’t run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.

B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.

C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.

D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.

E. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.

• BCEDA

• BEDAC

• BEADC

• BCDEA

1. The implications of retelling of Indian stories, hence, takes on new meaning in a modern India.

2.The stories we tell reflect the world around us.

3. We cannot help but retell the stories that we value — after all, they are never quite right for us — in our time.

4. And even if we manage to get them quite right, they are only right for us — other people living around us will have different reasons for telling similar stories.

5. As soon as we capture a story, the world we were trying to capture has changed.

• 25431

• 12345

• 21354

• 23145

(P) engaged in agriculture still remains

(Q) to 70 percent during 1951

(R) at around 60 percent compared

(S) In India as a whole the share of labour force

• SPRQ

• PQRS

• QSRP

• RPSQ

(P) where appointments are ensured

(Q) in the recruitment department

(R) through reliable middle agencies

(S) corruption is seen even

• SRPQ

• SPQR

• QRSP

• QPRS

(P) are provided with tall chimneys

(Q) high up into the air

(R) which carry smoke and waste gases?

(S) Factories and power stations

• SPRQ

• QSRP

• PRQS

• RSPQ

(P) only when the masses are

(Q) the economic and political life of the country.

(R) Real democracy will come into being

(S) awakened and take part in

• RPSQ

• PSRQ

• QSRP

• PQRS