S1: | There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. | P : | No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. | Q : | Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. | R : | It was 1729. | S : | The best he could do, as he got to the beside was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number" | S6: | It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | A noise started above their heads. | P : | But people did not take it seriously. | Q : | That was to show everyone that there was something wrong | R : | It was a dangerous thing to do. | S : | For, within minutes the ship began to sink. | S6: | Nearly 200 lives were lost on the fateful day. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | It was a dark moonless night. | P : | He turned over the pages, reading passages here and there. | Q : | He heard them on the floor. | R : | The poet took down his books of poems from his shelves. | S : | Some of them contained his earliest writings which he had almost forgotten. | S6: | They all seemed to him to be poor and ordinary mere childish words. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | I had halted on the road. | P : | As soon as I saw the elephant I knew I should not shoot him. | Q : | It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant. | R : | I knew that his must was already passing off. | S : | The elephant was standing 8 yards from the road. | S6: | I decided to watch him for a while and then go home. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | There is only one monkey we can thoroughly recommend as an indoor pet. | P : | They quickly die from colds and coughs after the first winter fogs. | Q : | It is beautiful and intelligent Capuchin monkey. | R : | The lively little Capuchins, however, may be left for years in an English house without the least danger to their health. | S : | The Marmosets, it is true, are more beautiful than a Capuchins and just as pleasing, but they are too delicate for the English climate | S6: | Finally let me say that no other monkey has a better temper or winning ways. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Once upon atime there lived three young men in a certain town of Hindustan. | P : | All the people of the neighbourhood were mortally afraid of them. | Q : | They were so powerful that they could catch growing lions and tear them to pieces. | R : | Someone told them that they would become immortal if they killed Death. | S : | The young men believed themselves to be very good friends. | S6: | All of them set out in search of their foe called Death. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | What are the causes of our chronic food shortage ? | P : | To find for these growing new millions is desperate task. | Q : | every year, we add more than a crore of persons to our population. | R : | Despite stupendous efforts by our government, the population is growing unabated. | S : | The chief cause is the population explosion. | S6: | This unprecedented growth can drag us to the doors of starvation very soon. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | The dictionary is the best friend of you task. | P : | That may not be possible always. | Q : | It is wise to look it up immediately. | R : | Then it must be firmly written on the memory and traced at the first opportunity. | S : | Never allow a strange word to pass unchallenged. | S6: | soon you will realize that this is an exciting task. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | A father having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to slip into a pub for a glass of beer. | P : | Indignant at her husband s behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson. | Q : | She wheeled away the pram. | R : | A little later, his wife came by, where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby. | S : | Leaving the pram outside, he disappeared inside the bar. | S6: | She waited for him, anticipating the white face and quivering lips which would soon appear with the news that the baby had been stolen. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | The study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their language. | P : | But they succeed in playing games of chess. | Q : | Some patients, for example fail to find the names of objects presented to them. | R : | They can even use the concepts needed for chess playing, though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language. | S : | They even find it difficult to interpret long written notices. | S6: | How they manage to do this we do not know. | The Proper sequence should be:
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