Reconstruction of Sentences-Test 4

Reading books

(P) is a habit

(Q) but also enlarges the mind

(R) because it not only increases knowledge

(S) which must be cultivated by everybody

(1) Every body

(P) attracts every other

(Q) whether big or small,

(R) body with the force

(S) in the universe

(6) of gravitation

(1) On reaching the station

(P) he first looked around

(Q) and when he could find none

(R) he just lifted his luggage

(S) for a coolie

(6) and walked down to the platform

The boy

(P) with big blue eyes

(Q) watched him,

(R) and he never said a word

(S) that had an uncanny cold fire in them

(1) The establishment of Delhi Sultanate

(P) new features in art and architecture

(Q) and their diffusion to all parts of the country

(R) saw the introduction of

(S) leading to the growth of

(6) India’s composite culture.

(1) If the sovereignty

(P) of the people and their elected representatives,

(Q) and the unity

(R) in the hands

(S) of a country is not safe

(6) it cannot be safe in any other hands

(1) Never

(P) that which

(Q) put off

(R) till tomorrow

(S) can be done

(6) today

Political liberty

(P) is secured

(Q) whereby civil and religious liberty

(R) is no more

(S) than the instrument

Though he was only a child

(P) he often worked much harder

(Q) than was either necessary

(R) in order to please his parents

(S) or good for him

Be careful in choosing your companions, and

(P) never to be departed from, that

(Q) no youth ought to be called your friend

(R) lay this down as a rule

(S) who is addicted to indecent talk or who is fond of low society

(1) There are many versions

(P) of a 15 ft. rope,

(Q) in which the magician

(R) of the Indian rope-trick

(S) firmly holds one end

(6) the other end of which he throws upwards

(P) to dispose off the waste matter

(Q) the modernisation would reduce

(R) provide better sanitary facilities

(S) manual labour considerably and would also

(1) The leader’s public meeting was disrupted

(P) by a section of a audience

(Q) any firm assurance

(R) he had not given them

(S) who felt that

(6) for the solution of their problems

(1) China is clearly

(P) become a middle income nation

(Q) its economy and society, and

(R) and perhaps a super power

(S) determined to modernise

(6) in the next twenty five years

People

(P) at his dispensary

(Q) went to him

(R) of all professions

(S) for medicine and treatment

(1) The next stop

(P) lying in the centre

(Q) of a bay

(R) was a port

(S) that our ship halted at

(6) in South wales

(P) it becomes difficult

(Q) satisfying our desire

(R) but once we set about

(S) if not impossible to restrain them

The captain

(P) when engaged against the enemy

(Q) who was himself a brave man

(R) never to lose heart

(S) advised the soliders

(1) Ashoka was successful

(P) by the cruelty and horrors of war

(Q) he was so disgusted

(R) in his military operations

(S) and alone among conquerors,

(6) that he renounced it

(1) Some remarks

(P) put the police on the right scent

(Q) by a woman

(R) and they discovered

(S) casually dropped

(6) the whole gang of brigands

(P) took place

(Q) when militants opened fire on BSF men

(R) the encounter lasting over two hours

(S) in the town around 8.30 a.m.

They are plant eaters

(P) and various kinds of vegetation

(Q) browsing on grass

(R) and consume

(S) vast quantities of pasture

Dermatologists tell us

(P) that the skin

(Q) is a finely laminated coating

(R) whose layered nature

(S) has inspired comparisons with onions

(P) when

(Q) a child develops best

(R) like a young plant

(S) he is left undisturbed in the same soil

(1) The Arabs live in tents

(P) so that they can move from one oasis to another

(Q) and taken down very easily and quickly

(R) seeking grass and water

(S) than can be put up

(6) for their sheep, goats, camels and horses.