Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. In the 1980s, skateboarding enjoyed an underground following. Skateboarders built their own ramps and half-pipes and began skating the urban environments, creating what became known as street style. P. Punk rock and baggy clothes became closely associated with young skaters. Q. Increased board size and improved truck constructions helped the new style thrive. R. It was during this time that a distinctive youth subculture began to develop around the sport. S. The daring and individualistic nature of street and vert skateboarding was spread through straight-to-video documentary films that found a large youth audience.
2. The videos made stars of vert skaters - Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero - and street skaters - Natas Kaupas and Mark Gonzalez - among many others.

Directions: In the question below, the 1^st and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Art is our legacy, our means of sharing in the spiritual greatness of other men and women and most of the great European painters and sculptors are known.

P. But many of the great carvers, potters, sculptors, and painters from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America are unknown.

Q. Artists of past and present keep alive for us humankind's natural potential for beauty and power.

R. Art represents a continuum of human experience across all parts of the world and all periods of history.

S. Indeed, archaeologists recognize the presence of Homo sapiens when they find some evidence of creativity, such as a shaped stone or a clay pot.

1. They help future generations to examine the fundamental mysteries of life and death, which we both fear and desire to know.

Directions: In the question below, the 1^st and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. An early method of cooling air as practiced in India was to hang wet grass mats over windows where they cooled incoming air by evaporation.

P. In the beginning of 20^th century, Carrier devised an air-conditioning unit based on the principle that cooled air reaches saturation and loses moisture through condensation.

Q. The first fully air-conditioned office building, the Milam Building in San Antonio, Texas, was constructed in the late 1920s.

R. Modern air-conditioning had its beginnings in the 19^th-century textile industry, in which atomized sprays of water were used for simultaneous humidification and cooling.

S. Carrier also devised a system wherein conditioned air was fed from the ceiling and exhausted at floor level.

1. The development of highly efficient refrigerant gases of low toxicity known as Freons in the early 1930s was an important step.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Bananas are thought to have been first domesticated in southeast Asia.

P. Their consumption is mentioned in early Greek, Latin and Arab writings.

Q. They were first established in Hispaniola and soon spread to other islands and the mainland.

R. It’s written that Alexander the Great saw bananas on an expedition to India.

S. Shortly after the discovery of America, bananas were taken from the Canary Islands to the New World.

1. Cultivation increased until bananas became a staple foodstuff in many regions and in the 19^th century, they began to appear in the markets of the United States.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. In order to experience art, we should of course visit museums. B. Yet even in museums, art is seen in very unpromising conditions. C. Each work was made to be seen alone, but in a museum, we are able to appraise it only in a room full of other works. D. They are the prime locus where the uniqueness of an artist’s work can be encountered. E. Compare this with our relationship to literature, we generally read one book at a time.
2. We spend as much time as it takes and we read it in comfort.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Land areas warm and cool more rapidly than water bodies do. B. It sometimes reduces maximum temperatures by 8 °C (15 °F) or more along a narrow coastal strip and greatly modifies the local climate. C. For that reason, cooler, denser air often flows from water to land (sea or lake breeze) during the day, and from land to water (land breeze) at night. D. Because the temperature contrast is usually greater during the day in summer, the sea breeze is the stronger. E. Similarly, a valley breeze is produced by rapid warming of the valley floor that causes the air to expand and flow up the slopes.
2. The rising currents sometimes trigger thunderstorms over the mountains.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. There are variations between countries in the celebration of April Fools’ Day, but all have in common an excuse to make someone play the fool. B. In France, for example, the fooled person is called poisson d’avril (“April fish”). C. It is common for French children to pin a paper fish to the backs of unsuspecting friends. D. This perhaps, is in reference to a young fish and hence, to one that is easily caught. E. In Scotland, the day is Gowkie Day, for the gowk or cuckoo, a symbol of the fool.
2. On the following day, signs reading “kick me” and “gowk” are pinned to friends’ backs.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in a proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Dance is used as therapy by ritual societies in many cultures. B. Hausa women, for example, find healing through dance and spirit possession in the Bori cult. C. During a three-month period in a house shrine, the sufferer is taught songs and dances that are joined by the members of the society to perform the Ajun-Kpa dance. D. Many African religions are based on a bond of continuity between the living and their dead ancestors. E. Among the Jukun of Nigeria, a similar organization to Bori cult is called the Ajun.
2. The complex web of human relationships is continuously renewed and restated at ritual festivals through the arts.

Directions: In the question below, the 1^st and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Aircraft such as balloons, nonrigid airships (blimps), and dirigibles are designed to contain within their structure a sufficient volume. B. When they are filled with a gas lighter than air (heated air, hydrogen, or helium), they displace the surrounding ambient air and float, just as a cork does on the water. C. Dirigibles are no longer in use, but they were lighter-than-air craft with a rigid internal structure, which was usually very large, D. It proved impossible to construct dirigibles of sufficient strength to withstand routine operation under all weather conditions. E. Balloons are not steerable and drift with the wind.
2. Most of them suffered disaster, either breaking up in a storm or through ignition of the hydrogen.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. The proper treatment of animals is a very old question in the West. B. For example, the Pythagoreans and the Neoplatonists urged respect for animals' interests. C. In his biological writings, Aristotle repeatedly suggested that animals lived for their own sake. D. Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers debated the place of animals in human morality. E. Because these thinkers believed in the transmigration of souls between human and animal bodies.
2. But his claim in the Politics that nature made all animals for the sake of humans was unfortunately destined to become his most influential statement on the subject.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in a proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. In 1690, Sir William Temple wrote Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning. B. William Wotton responded to Temple’s charges in his reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. C. Temple attacked the members of the Royal Society, rejected the doctrine of progress of moderns and supported the virtuosity and excellence of ancient learning. D. He praised the Moderns in most but not all branches of learning. E. Jonathan Swift, defending his patron Temple, satirized the conflict in his Tale of a Tub (1704), and more importantly, in The Battle of the Books (1704).
2. At a later date, Swift was to make an even more devastating attack on the Royal Society in Gulliver’s Travels, Book III.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6, respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination from amongst the given alternatives.

1. Biofuel is any fuel that is derived from biomass — plant material or animal waste. B. Biofuel is perceived by its advocates as a cost-effective and environmentally benign alternative to petroleum and other fossil fuels. C. Primarily because of rising petroleum prices and increased concern over the contributions made by fossil fuels to global warming. D. Since such feedstock material can be replenished readily, biofuel is considered to be a source of renewable energy. E. Many critics express concerns about the scope of the expansion of certain biofuels.
2. Mainly because of the economic and environmental costs associated with the refining process and the removal of vast areas of arable land from food production.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6, respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination from amongst the given alternatives.

1. At the age of 17, Cooper was apprenticed to a coach maker, whom he served so well that he was given a salary, and at the end of his apprenticeship was offered a loan to go into coach making on his own. B. A few years later, he saw opportunity in another industry and switched to supplying the rapidly growing markets for glue and isinglass, building up a large business he plunged into still another enterprise. C. Young Cooper instead went into the business of manufacturing and selling machines for shearing cloth. D. This was the Canton Iron Works, built on 3,000 acres of land in Baltimore, primarily to supply the new Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. E. The route of the railroad, however, was so hilly and twisting that English engineers despaired of running an engine over it.
2. Cooper at once undertook to build a suitable locomotive and by 1830 had the diminutive but powerful “Tom Thumb" experimentally pulling a load of 40 persons at 10 miles an hour.

Directions: In the question below, the 1^st and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Efforts to define the nature of an art or craft usually are based upon the masterpieces of that field. B. It is difficult to imagine what the present state of comprehension of music would be if only the music of today were available. C. Without that necessary reference point, vague speculations and generalizations—without proof of validity—are likely. D. Yet, this is precisely the situation that exists in acting. E. In the visual, musical, and literary arts, this foundation exists; the work of the great masters of the past and the present serves not only to elucidate the art but also to create standards to emulate.
2. The actor, in the words of the 19^th-century actor Lawrence Barrett, “is forever carving a statue of snow.”