Dear Readers,
Here are some sentence rearrangements for you. These are important for the upcoming SBI Po 2017.
Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
a) The Centre has since issued rules for conservation and management, and chosen 115 water bodies in 24 States for protection support, but this is obviously too little.
b) Loss of natural wetlands is an ongoing catastrophe in India.
c) A decade ago, when the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History released a conservation atlas for all States using space applications.
d) Moreover, research studies show that the concentration of heavy metals in such sites is leading to bioaccumulation, thus entering the plants and animals that ultimately form part of people’s food.Â
e) It reported the tragic fact that 38% of wetlands had already been lost nationally; and shockingly, in some districts only 12% survived.
Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
a) Mr. Subramanian and his team acknowledge the complexities in assessing its potential impact as well as the lack of historical precedent to make reliable predictions.
b) Describing the November 8 decision to withdraw high-value currency notes as a “radical governance-cum-social engineering measure” aimed at punitively raising the cost of illicit activities.
c) As Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian stated, “To deify or demonise demonetisation that is the difficult question the world is asking, to which the survey tries to respond.”
d) The Survey, however, emphatically asserts that while there have been short-term costs to the economy, which would need to be expeditiously addressed, there will be long-term benefits.
e) The Economic Survey presented on the eve of the Union Budget has been dominated by a singular action of the government.
Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
a) Till now Russia held the record of launching 37 satellites in a single mission, in 2014, while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S. launched 29 satellites in one go in 2013.
b) An earth observation Cartosat-2 series satellite and two other nano satellites were the only Indian satellites launched: the remaining were from the United States, Israel, the UAE, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan and Switzerland.
c) The Indian Space Research Organisation boosted its reputation further when it successfully launched a record 104 satellites in one mission from Sriharikota by relying on its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket.
d) Last June, ISRO had come close to NASA’s record by launching 20 satellites in one mission.
e) Of the 101 foreign satellites launched, 96 were from the U.S. and one each from the other five countries.
Directions (16-20): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
a) Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal has promised a steady increase in solar power capacity, going beyond the target of 100 gigawatts by 2022.
b) A warming globe with changes to the climate in the form of altered rainfall, drought, floods, lost biodiversity and reduced crop yields would particularly affect millions in China and India.
c) This should lead to a scaling up of renewable energy and measurable decline in use of fossil fuels.
d) India’s own commitment to the climate accord must be strengthened with clear and unambiguous actions.
e) It is heartening that Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted the importance of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum, and virtually cautioned incoming U.S. President Donald Trump against reneging on it.
Directions (21-25): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
a) Two important pointers to the need for cost regulation are available from research published in The Lancet in December 2015: nearly two-thirds of the high out-of-pocket expenditure on health incurred by Indians went towards drugs.
b) Rising costs have led to impoverishment of families and litigation demanding regulation.
c) Capping the prices of medical stents, which are used to treat coronary artery disease, by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is an extreme regulatory measure necessitated by the market failure that afflicts the overall delivery of health care in India.
d) Given the overall dominance of private, commercial, for-profit health institutions, and the asymmetry confronting citizens, correctives to bring about a balance are inevitable.
e) Even the meagre research data available showed that there was irrational use of medical technologies, including cardiac stents and knee implants.
Answers: (1-5) BCEAD, (6-10) ECBAE (11-15) CBEAD (16-20) BEDCA (21-25) CBDAE
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