Reading Comprehension

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. The word “diet” originates from the Greek word “diaita”, literally meaning “manner of living”. 

2. In the contemporary language, dieting is synonymous with a quick fix solution for an overwhelming obesity epidemic.

3. Dieting implies restriction, limitation of pleasurable foods and drinks, and despite of having no benefits, the omnipresent dieting mentality remains to be the norm. 

4. Most diets fail most of the time and repeated diet failure is a negative predictor for successful long term weight loss.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. As territories of humans and leopards have practically merged, conflicts are rising. 
In 2019-20 alone, Maharashtra saw 58 human deaths due to leopards—over half the 97 casualties in 2010-18.

2. In 2021, Gujarat too mooted a sterilisation programme for leopards around Gir National Park, which is yet to be approved by the Centre.

3. Animal casualties were 176 in 2020-21, equal to those in 2016-18, says Singh's analysis of data from the state chief wildlife warden and Wildlife Institute of India (WII).

4. The state forest department says leopard population has grown by 63 per cent in 2016-23

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

Local communities' group have regularly come in strife with agents attempting to misuse assets, at a quicker pace, for an extending business modern economy. As a rule, such operators of asset heightening are given special treatment by the state, through the award of generous long leases over mineral or fish stocks, for instance, or the provision of crude material at a tremendously financed cost. local communities at the receiving end of this process have no recourse except direct action, opposing both the state and outside exploiters through an assortment of dissent methods. These struggles maybe be viewed as an appearance of another sort of class conflict.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was the last of the peace settlements negotiated at the end of the First World War, and the only one to endure to this day. It brokered peace between Turkey and the “Allied and Associated Powers”: Britain, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Romania and Yugoslavia. Just a few years earlier the defeated Ottoman Empire's two allied empires of Germany and Austro-Hungary had been presented with a dictated peace at Versailles, Saint-Germain and Trianon. Like them, so the Ottomans were loaded with war guilt, reparations, and massive losses of territory.

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

 Sentence: He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit.

A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books. Up late at night after he came, reading Scott's Commentary. (1)____________. Appeared to be as fond of serious works as other young folks were of their novels and romances and other immoral publications. (2)____________. He, the Deacon, thought of having a few religious friends to meet the young gentleman, if he felt so disposed; and should like to have him, Mr. Bradshaw, come in and take a part in the exercises. Mr. Bradshaw was unfortunately engaged. (3)____________.Mr. Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live. (4)____________.

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: One common product-labelling tool within the industry was the Higg Materials Sustainability Index

A multitude of metrics, certification schemes and labels mark the environmental consequences of making and selling clothing. (1) ___________. Brands have been accused of greenwashing due to the poor quality of information used in some of them. (2) ____________. Introduced in 2011, the Higg Index was a rating system used by several large brands and retailers to determine and report the global warming impact and water consumption of different products, among other environmental measures. (3)___________. The approach adopted by the index was challenged by the Norwegian Consumer Authority for limiting its assessment to only certain phases of a product's lifecycle, such as the sourcing of materials. (4)__________.

Four jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

1. The power of the monarch passed to two annually elected magistrates called consuls and they also served as commanders in chief of the army. 

2. The magistrates, though elected by the people, were drawn largely from the Senate, which was dominated by the patricians, or the descendants of the original senators from the time of Romulus.

3. Politics in the early republic was marked by the long struggle between patricians and plebeians (the common people), who eventually attained some political power through years of concessions from patricians, including their own political bodies, the tribunes, which could initiate or veto legislation.

4. The country of France emerged from the fragmentation of the larger Carolingian empire, when Hugh Capet became King of West Francia in 987.