In the question each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S or A, B, C, D. Select the proper order for the four sentences.

• S1: Metals are today being replaced by polymers in many applications.
• S6: Many Indian Institutes of Science and Technology run special programmes on polymer science. 
• P: Above all, they are cheaper and easier to process, making them a viable alternative to metals.
• Q: Polymers are essentially long chains of hydrocarbon molecules.
• R: Today polymers are as strong as metals.
• S: These have replaced the traditional chromium-plated metallic bumpers in cars.

Op 1: QRSP
Op 2: RSQP
Op 3: RQSP
Op 4: QRPS

Solution:
Option: 1 (QRSP)

• S1: The cooperative system of doing business is a good way of encouraging ordinary workers to work hard.
• S6: The main object is to maintain the interest of every member of the society and to ensure that the members participate actively in the projects of the society.
• P: If the society is to be well run, it is necessary to prevent insincere officials being elected to the committee which is solely responsible for the running of the business.
• Q: They get this from experienced and professional workers who are not only familiar with the cooperative system, but also with efficient methods of doing business.
• R: To a large extent, many cooperative societies need advice and guidance.
• S: The capital necessary to start a business venture is obtained by the workers' contributions.

Op 1: SQPR
Op 2: PQSR
Op 3: SRQP
Op 4: PSRQ

Solution:
Option: 1 (SQPR)

• S1: American private lives may seem shallow.
• S6: This would not happen in China, he said.
• P: Students would walk away with books they had not paid for.
• Q: A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library.
• R: Their public morality, however, impressed visitors.
• S: But in general they returned them.

Op 1: PSQR
Op 2: QPSR
Op 3: RQPS
Op 4: RPSQ

Solution:
Option: 2 (QPSR)

• S1: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
• S6: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy .... this guy's your waiter and he wants your order."
• P: At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me a single gold tooth and a dingy face.
• Q: Soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
• R: But this one wouldn't budge.
• S: We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.

Op 1: SQRP
Op 2: SQPR
Op 3: QSRP
Op 4: QSPR

Solution:
Option: 3 (QSRP)

• S1: Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.
• S6: This is because Venice has no streets.
• P: There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice.
• Q: In this city there are no motor cars, no horses and no buses.
• R: These small islands are near one another.
• S: It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands.

Op 1: PQRS
Op 2: PRQS
Op 3: SRPQ
Op 4: PQSR

Solution:
Option: 3 (SRPQ)

• S1: I keep on flapping my big ears all day.
• S6: Am I not a smart, intelligent elephant ?
• P: They also fear that I will flap them all away.
• Q: But children wonder why I flap them so.
• R: I flap them so to make sure they are safely there on either side of my head.
• S: But I know what I am doing.

Op 1: SRQP
Op 2: QPSR
Op 3: QPRS
Op 4: PSRQ


Solution:
Option: 2 (QPSR)

• S1: Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14 Nov, 1889.
• S6: He died on 27 May, 1964.
• P: Nehru met Mahatma Gandhi in February, 1920.
• Q: In 1905 he was sent to London to study at a school called Harrow.
• R: He became the first Prime Minister of Independent India on 15 August, 1947.
• S: He married Kamla Kaul in 1915.

Op 1: QRPS
Op 2: QSPR
Op 3: RPQS
Op 4: SQRP

Solution:
Option: 2 (QSPR)

• S1: Ms. Parasuram started a petrol pump in Madras.
• S6: Thus she has shown the way for many others.
• P: A total of twelve girls now work at the pump.
• Q: She advertised in newspapers for women staff.
• R: They operate in two shifts.
• S: The response was good.

Op 1: PQSR
Op 2: SQPR
Op 3: QSPR
Op 4: PQRS

Solution:
Option: 3 (QSPR)

• S1: Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.
• S6: In any case, we should not mock at others' habits.
• P: One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows.
• Q: A man of another country will not do so.
• R: It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.
• S: Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.

Op 1: RPQS
Op 2: RPSQ
Op 3: PRQS
Op 4: QPRS

Solution:
Option: 2 (RPSQ)

• S1: There is a difference between Gandhiji's concept of secularism and that of Nehru's.
• S6: Instead of doing any good, such secularism can do harm instead of good.
• P: Nehru's idea of secularism was equal indifference to all religions and bothering about none of them.
• Q: According to Gandhiji, all religions are equally true and each scripture is worthy of respect.
• R: Such secularism which means the rejection of all religions is contrary to our culture and tradition. 
• S: In Gandhiji's view, secularism stands for equal respect for all religions.

Op 1: SQPR
Op 2: PSQR
Op 3: QSPR
Op 4: PRSQ

Solution:
Option: 1 (SQPR)

• S1: Once upon a time an ant lived on the bank of a river.
• S6: She was touched.
• P: The dove saw the ant struggling in water in a helpless condition.
• Q: All its efforts to come up failed.
• R: One day it suddenly slipped into the water.
• S: A dove lived in a tree on the bank not far from the spot.

Op 1: RQSP
Op 2: QRPS
Op 3: SRPQ
Op 4: PQRS

Solution:
Option: 1 (RQSP)

• S1. Take the case of a child raised under slum conditions, whose parents are socially ambitious and envy families with money, but who nevertheless squander the little they have on drink. 
• A. Common sense would expect that he would develop the value of thrift; he would never again endure the grinding poverty he has experienced as a child. 
• B. He may simply be unable in later life to mobilize a drive sufficient to overcome these early conditions. 
• C. But infact it is not so. 
• D. The exact conditions are too complex but when certain conditions are fulfilled, he will thereafter be a spend thrift. 
• S6. This is what has been observed in a number of cases. 

Op 1: DCBA
Op 2: ABCD
Op 3: ACDB
Op 4: BACD

Solution:
Option: 4 (BACD)

• S1. The three colonial cities - Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were born at around the same time. 
• A. Sadly today it has also become the most virulent symbol of the violent trends in body politic that is tearing apart the society along suicidal lines. 
• B. Of the three, Bombay had been most enterprising in industrial and commercial exploration. 
• C. Whether it is one caste against other or the most pervasive of all trends - Hindus against Muslims. 
• D. It is indeed a metaphor for modern India. 
• S6. This is about two tales of a city. 

Op 1: ABCD
Op 2: BACD
Op 3: BDCA
Op 4: DABC

Solution:
Option: 2 (BACD)

• S1. Indian golfers contemplating a round or two in China would do well to familiarise themselves with the grazing habits of water buffalo. 
• A. However, it is rare that these bulky beasts of burden meander across the manicured greens of China's golf courses. 
• B. Chuangshan - located 90 minutes north of Hongkong was constructed to make the most of the area's natural attributes - an undulating valley ringed by blue mountains. 
• C. But it is not very rare to find a bamboo hatted worker excitedly directing a moving hazard. 
• D. Particularly not so if it is Chuangshan Hotspring Golf Club. 
• S6. Chuangshan is unique for more than a highly picturesque phenomenon. 

Op 1: ABCD
Op 2: ACDB
Op 3: ADCB
Op 4: ADBC

Solution:
Option: 2 (ACDB)

• S1. Hunger lurks unseen in every village and city of our country. 
• A. What goes unrecognised is that death of starvation is only the most dramatic manifestation of a much more invisible malaise - of pervasive, stubborn, chronic hunger. 
• B. Yet it surfaces into public consciousness only trainsiently, in moments when there are troubling media reports of starvation deaths.
• C. Among these are entire communities, utterly disenfranchised and asset less. 
• D. And, that there are millions of forgotten people in India who live routinely at the very edge of survival, with hunger as a way of everyday life. 
• S6. Like the Musahaars, a proud and savagely oppressed Dalit community in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, who own not even the land on which their tenuous homesteads are built. 

Op 1: CBAD
Op 2: BDAC
Op 3: ADCB
Op 4: BADC

Solution:
Option: 4 (BADC)