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Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

This passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: One of the first things the learning of a new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious. S6: The test of how much you know is: how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it? P: What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it. Q: We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds – a much more laborious process. R: That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly: it comes straight from their instincts. S: But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively. The proper sequence should be

This passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1: One of the first things the learning of a new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious.
S6: The test of how much you know is: how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it?
P: What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.
Q: We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds – a much more laborious process.
R: That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly: it comes straight from their instincts.
S: But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively.

The proper sequence should be

Options

  1. a.

    S Q R P

  2. b.

    R P S Q

  3. c.

    P Q S R

    Correct answer
  4. d.

    R Q P S

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