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Updated on: Monday, August 16, 2010

Question Type: Sentence arrangement
Strategy: All the statements are logically and grammatically correct. The test taker has to find out in what order the original author had written them. Look for grammatical connectors first, like pronoun follows a noun, definite article follows an indefinite article. Then select one statement that will either introduce or conclude the main issue.

Directions for Questions 13-15: In the following questions a few statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

13. A. An illusion remains, and science, working in the name of reality, will gradually eliminate it, namely the illusion that man has established a permanent order of society.
B. Gradually the anthropocentric illusion has been compelled to give way before the results of science.
C. And this condition, instead of being a glorious but transitory stage, is supposed to be the end of the development of humanity, which is henceforth condemned not to perfect itself any more by further changes.
D. We have seen that freedom of thought in science, literature and art, for which the bourgeoisie fought, triumphed over the tyranny of the mediaeval dogma.
E. While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.
1. BAEDC 2. ECDBA 3. BDEAC
4. EDCAB 5. DBEAC

Correct Answer: 1

14. A. Scars occasioned by actual loss of substance, or by wounds healed by granulation, never disappear.
B. Tattoo marks may disappear during life; the brighter colours, as vermilion, as a rule, more readily than those made with carbon, as Indian ink.
C. The medical man may in such cases be consulted as to family resemblance, marks on the body, scars and tattoo marks, or with regard to the organs of generation in cases of doubtful sex.
D. It is but seldom that medical evidence is required with regard to the identification of the living, though it may sometimes be so.
E. If the tattooing is superficial (merely underneath the cuticle) the marks may possibly be removed by acetic acid or cantharides or even by picking out the colouring-matter with a fine needle.
1. CDEAB 2. EDCBA 3. CDEBA
4. DCBEA 5. ADCBE

Correct Answer: 4

15. A. Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them.
B. It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning.
C. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.
D. Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences.
E. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.
1. ABCDE 2. BCEDA 3. ADCBE
4. BCDAE 5. EABDC

Correct Answer: 1

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