Direction (Qs.1-5): In the question given below there are six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) are arranged not necessarily in the order in which the sentence in bold is in correct order and the rest are arranged in Jumbled. Arrange them to form a coherent paragraph both meaningfully and grammatically correct.
Question No : 1
(A) NASA technology demonstrations, which one day could help the agency get astronauts to Mars, and science missions, which will look at the space environment around Earth and how it affects us, have launched into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
(B) The missions, each with a unique set of objectives, will aid in smarter spacecraft design and benefit the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration plans by providing greater insight into the effects of radiation in space and testing an atomic clock that could change how spacecraft navigate.
(C) With launch and deployments complete, the missions will start to power on, communicate with Earth and collect data.
(D) The NASA missions lifted off at 2:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as part of the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) launch.
(E) “This launch was a true partnership across government and industry, and it marked an incredible first for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center,” said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. “The NASA missions aboard the Falcon Heavy also benefited from strong collaborations with industry, academia and other government organizations.”
(F) They each will operate for about a year, providing enough time to mature the technologies and collect valuable science data.
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(2) DEBCF
(3) CFEBD
(4) EFDBC
(5) BDCFE
Question No : 2
(A) Demonstrators from across the country assembled on Park Lane in central London to march against Brexit, and Boris Johnson’s likely move into No 10, and for a second Brexit referendum.
(B) Speaking to demonstrators, it was clear that there is no consensus regarding the goal of the People’s Vote campaign – and the march.(C) Jackie, in her 40s, and daughter Poppy, 12, travelled from Bournemouth to join the crowd It was their fourth anti-Brexit march.
(D) One man played the bagpipes. But there were major schisms underlying the harmony.
(E) At first sight, the message of the “No to Boris, yes to Europe” march, taking place three days before Johnson is expected to be crowned Tory leader, seemed to be unambiguous.
(F) The mood was cheerful, with people dressed up as Johnson, a Nigel Farage on stilts, and EU flags painted on faces.
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(2) DEBCF
(3) CFEBD
(4) EFDBC
(5) BDCFE
Question No : 3
(A) The Greens senator Nick McKim says he was deported from Manus Island because he “simply stood on a public street and asked politely” to see conditions in a refugee and asylum seeker transit camp.
(B) The Tasmanian senator arrived back in Australia on Saturday after he was told to leave Papua New Guinea on Thursday night.
(C) McKim said he politely asked staff if he could enter the East Lorengau transit centre on Thursday, but was denied. Later that evening, PNG police visited his hotel room to tell him he was being deported from the country.
(D) McKim – who has a 12-month, multiple-entry visa – was visiting to mark the sixth anniversary of Australia’s resumption of mandatory offshore detention, when then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that all asylum seekers who arrived by boat would not be resettled in Australia.
(E) He said ‘Ok you can go now, but I’m keeping your passport’. So I said I wasn’t goin anywhere until I got my passport back.
(F) “I just walked up the public road to the East Lorengau transit centre and just politely asked to go in,” he said. “The immigration guy at the gates asked for my passport, I gave it to him.
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(5) BDCFE
Question No : 4
(A) Joginder Singh will never forget the night of July 19, 1999.
(B) The incident occurred exactly a week before the Kargil conflict ended on July 26.
(C) After a terrifying gun battle that lasted through the night, militants slaughtered 15 members of Mr. Singh’s immediate family, including his father, mother, two minor brothers, two uncles and grandmother.
(D) In 1998, the Indian Army had armed Joginder’s father, uncles and cousins, who constituted the Village Defence Committee with .303 rifles, as they had helped security forces combat militancy in the strife-torn area. This made them marked men.
(E) A group of 30-40 militants, mostly from the HizbulMujahideen, laid siege to his home in the mountainous, backwater village of Lehota in Jammu and Kashmir’s strife-torn Doda district.
(F) He was barely four-and-a-half years old then, but remembers every moment in vivid detail.
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(5) BDCFE
Question No : 5
(A) A non-toxic, rosé-colored liquid could fuel the future in space and propel missions to the Moon or other worlds.
(B) Spacecraft love hydrazine, but it’s toxic to humans. Handling the clear liquid requires strict safety precautions – protective suits, thick rubber gloves and oxygen tanks.
(C) NASA will test the fuel and compatible propulsion system in space for the first time with the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), set to launch this month on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
(D) GPIM promises fewer handling restrictions that will reduce the time it takes to prepare for launch.
(E) The propellant blends hydroxyl ammonium nitrate with an oxidizer that allows it to burn, creating an alternative to hydrazine, the highly toxic fuel commonly used by spacecraft today.
(F) The mission will demonstrate the exceptional features of a high-performance “green” fuel developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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(2) DEBCF
(3) CFEBD
(4) EFDBC
(5) BDCFE