PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

JUMBLED SENTENCES

PREPARATORY SET-34 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the questions given below a sentence has been broken down into four fragments labeled (A), (B), (C) and (D) are arranged but not necessarily in the same order. You have to find the correct order of the arrangement from the options given below. In case, the sentence is correct in its original form, please select (5) i.e., “No arrangement required” as your answer.

Question No : 1

with constant surveillance being used (A)/ further, the AFRS violates the legal test of proportionality (B)/ as a strategy for crime detection (C)/ that was articulated in the landmark Puttaswamy judgment, (D)/

(1)DCBA  

(2)CBAD

(3)ABDC

(4)BDAC

(5)No arrangement required

Question No : 2

China’s paper makes a case for a more outward orientation (A)/ of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has been downsized (B)/ with modern technology than it was some years ago (C)/ in terms of soldiers, but is far better equipped (D)/

(1)DCBA

(2)CBAD

(3)ABDC

(4)BDAC

(5)No arrangement required

Question No : 3

with its operational locus shifting from mere (A)/ but also enhanced naval heft, (B)/ its budgetary slice-up points to investments not only in digital enablement, (C)/ “offshore waters defense" to a combination of this and “open seas protection" (D)/

(1) DCBA

(2) CBAD

(3) ABDC

(4) BDAC

(5) No arrangement required

Question No : 4

the military council then had an opportunity, (A)/ like the military in Tunisia after the fall of the dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (B)/ in January 2011, to return to the barracks and let the civilian leadership (C)/ assume power and shape the country’s future (D)/

(1) DCBA

(2) CBAD

(3) ABDC

(4) BDAC

(5) No arrangement required

Question No : 5

to “adapt to the new landscape of strategic competition" (A)/ on its own part, and calls for its armed forces (B)/ as exercised by its global rivals (chiefly the US, as we can safely assume), disavows any pursuit of hegemony (C)/ the document is unsparingly critical of “power politics" (D)/

(1) DCBA

(2) CBAD   

(3) ABDC       

(4) BDAC                   

(5) No arrangement required