CET 2025 Slot 6 · Verbal – Page 10
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Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
1. The price of this banishment is a diminished capacity to marvel at what we do not understand.
2. Yet even within science, recovered wonder remains both marvellous and unsettling, because it challenges the security we seek.
3. We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has largely been banished.
4. This loss reflects our preference for predictable security over the uncertainties that wonder brings.
5. Within that secure world, the magician’s sense of hidden possibility survives chiefly in science, where discovery can still surprise us.
1. The price of this banishment is a diminished capacity to marvel at what we do not understand.
2. Yet even within science, recovered wonder remains both marvellous and unsettling, because it challenges the security we seek.
3. We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has largely been banished.
4. This loss reflects our preference for predictable security over the uncertainties that wonder brings.
5. Within that secure world, the magician’s sense of hidden possibility survives chiefly in science, where discovery can still surprise us.
- 2,1,5,3,4
- 1,5,4,3,2
- 2,1,3,4,5
- 3,1,4,5,2
- 4,2,1,3,5
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Answer: D. 3,1,4,5,2
Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
1. People therefore began to fear a famine.
2. The monsoon failed, and the water tanks became almost empty.
3. That next monsoon proved unusually abundant, and the danger was averted.
4. With so little water available, the farmers could sow no grain in their fields.
5. To escape that feared famine, the farmers waited anxiously for the next monsoon.
1. People therefore began to fear a famine.
2. The monsoon failed, and the water tanks became almost empty.
3. That next monsoon proved unusually abundant, and the danger was averted.
4. With so little water available, the farmers could sow no grain in their fields.
5. To escape that feared famine, the farmers waited anxiously for the next monsoon.
- 5,4,3,1,2
- 3,4,5,1,2
- 4,2,3,5,1
- 2,3,4,5,1
- 2,4,1,5,3
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Answer: E. 2,4,1,5,3
Fill in the blank with the proper words given below.
Rama is not at home, he ____ just _____ for Shopping
Rama is not at home, he ____ just _____ for Shopping
- Is/ gone
- Was / going
- Had / gone
- Will have / be going
- Has / gone
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Answer: E. Has / gone
Identify the correct indirect speech form of the following sentence
The old woman said to the boy, 'Please help me till he returns'.
The old woman said to the boy, 'Please help me till he returns'.
- The old woman told the boy, Please help me till he returns'.
- The old woman said that she may please help till he returns.
- The old women asked that a boy may help her till he returns.
- The old woman ordered the boy to help him till he returned
- The old woman requested the boy to help her till he returned.
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Answer: E. The old woman requested the boy to help her till he returned.
Choose the correct alternative to replace the bold phrase in the following sentence.
I cannot force her to playing.
I cannot force her to playing.
- In playing
- For play
- Over the play
- With play
- To play
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Answer: E. To play