Directions for the following 8 (EIGHT) items: In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: There have been many stories of porpoises saving human lives.
S6: Marine scientists point out that the porpoise’s spirit of play is responsible for such incidents.
P: ‘When I got to my feet no one was near, but in the water about 18 feet out a porpoise was leaping about.’ · Q: One woman was wading waist deep off the Florida coast when an undertow pulled her down. · R: ‘I felt something give me a terrific shove up on to the beach’, she says. · S: ‘A man standing nearby said that the porpoise had shoved me ashore.’
The proper sequence should be
- APRSQ
- BQPRS
- CQRPS
- DQPSR
Explanation
Q (wading, pulled down) → R (shoved onto beach) → P (porpoise leaping) → S (man confirms). (QRPS)