John and David ____(1)___ both patients in a Mental Hospital. One day, while they were walking, they passed the hospital swimming pool and John suddenly ____(2)____ into the deep end. He sank to the bottom and stayed there. David ____(3)____ jumped in and saved him, swimming to the bottom of the pool and pulling John out. The medical director came to know of David’s heroic act. He immediately ordered that David be discharged from the hospital as he now considered him to be OK. The doctor said, “David, we have good news and bad news for you! The good news is that we are going to discharge you because you have regained your ____(4)____. Since you were able to jump in and save another patient, you must be mentally ____(5)_____. The bad news is that the patient that you saved hung himself in the bathroom and died after all.” David replied, “Doctor, John didn’t hang himself. I hung him there to dry.”

1.
a) is
b) were
c) are
d) was

2.
a) strain
b) flown
c) dove
d) alert

3.
a) promptly
b) slowly
c) mentally
d) unfortunately

4.
a) morals
b) power
c) imbalance
d) sanity

5.
a) calm
b) stable
c) equal
d) constant

Directions(Que 1 to 5) Rearrange the following seven sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G) and (H) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below:

A) If one tries to comprehend the idea behind ‘worshipping’ an entity, there is always the underlying quotient of a power relation to it.
B) Hence, an important idea behind worshipping nature was the very realisation of the power it held over our lives.
C) It is a human attribute to revere and worship what we consider powerful.
D) What we worship can be anything — people, money , corporations, nations or governments.
E) In this world dominated by science, industry, the bid to ease human effort and the crass pursuit of the material world, the worship of nature will perhaps be counted as a primitive, naive and superstitious quest.
F) We have come a long way from an age of ‘worshipping nature’ to movements such as Scientology.
G) To quote an example, the earlier generations venerated snakes and made sacred groves for them; many of the sacred groves are now being cleared.
H) Many of us are scornful and dismissive of our forefathers who worshipped nature and the elements.

1. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
a) D
b) F
c) C
d) B
e) E

2. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
a) H
b) B
c) F
d) D
e) A

3. Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) D
b) E
c) C
d) F
e) G

4. Which of the following should be the LAST sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

5. Which of the following should be the SIXTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

6. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E