Reconstruction of Sentences-Test 5

It was

(P) in keeping with my mood

(Q) a soft summer evening

(R) as I walked sedately

(S) in the direction of the new house

(1) Freedom, which

(P) in the sense

(Q) that a wide gulf separates

(R) a modern woman enjoys

(S) in the restricted kind,

(6) the rich and the poor women.

Padukone’s retirement

(P) as in obvious

(Q) his concern for the game

(R) has not diminished

(S) when he talks of the Badminton Association of India

(1) After a laborious life

(P) to the quiet village where he was born

(Q) most of which he had spent in the metropolis

(R) and where he intended to spend

(S) he retired in his old age

(6) his remaining years.

(P) The management having agreed

(Q) the workers called off the strike

(R) to increase their wages

(S) and returned to work

The Bible,

(P) has in many respects

(Q) the sacred book of all Christians

(R) among all the books of the world

(S) a unique character and position

The ultimate hope

(P) will force the nations

(Q) that the destructive nature of weapons

(R) to give up war

(S) has not been fulfilled

(P) deserve all honour in society

(Q) in doing their job well

(R) men of conscience who take pride

(S) whatever its nature

(P) I wonder

(Q) whenever I decide to go to the cinema

(R) with my moped

(S) why I always have trouble

(P) expresses itself in many diverse art forms

(Q) ancient in origin

(R) The essence of the spirit of Bulgaria

(S) of great creativity

(P) when a chemical substance

(Q) the food poisoning occurred

(R) in the food preparations

(S) was mistaken for salt and used

If

(P) a foreigner wishes to

(Q) learn standard English

(R) learn English

(S) he will, of course,

(1) According to reports

(P) were still trapped inside

(Q) bogies

(R) the wrecked

(S) some of the passengers

(6) of the express

Only

(P) to make himself

(Q) by shouting at the top of his voice

(R) was he able

(S) heard

(P) One has no right in law

(Q) of a tenant’s room

(R) to break open the lock

(S) and take its possession

When he

(P) did not know

(Q) he was nervous and

(R) heard the hue and cry at midnight

(S) what to do

(1) A number of measures

(P) the financial conditions

(Q) for mobilisation of resources

(R) in order to improve

(S) are being taken by the State Governments

(6) of the Municipal Corporations.

By this time

(P) at the railway station

(Q) reported mass looting

(R) reports of violence were flooding in

(S) while police dispatches

(1) Paintings

(P) have been

(Q) which were submitted

(R) totally ruined by rain

(S) for the exhibition

(6) last night

(1) A four-year study

(P) that babies feel more comfortable

(Q) conducted by the Infant Testing Centre

(R) around other babies

(S) clearly suggests

(6) than with strange adults.

(1) Strike

(P) when all the other methods

(Q) is a legitimate weapon of the worker

(R) to get better pay,

(S) shorter hours of work and better working conditions

(6) have failed.

The mother exclaimed that

(P) to have solved the puzzle

(Q) so quickly

(R) it was

(S) very clever of him

(1) If the sword fish really attacked

(P) it could have cut it

(Q) and that would have been

(R) to pieces very quickly

(S) the rubber raft with its vicious sword

(6) the end of the experiment.

(1) India has been a land

(P) but in the sense that learning has always been very highly valued

(Q) not indeed in the sense that education has been universal,

(R) and the learned man has been held in higher esteem

(S) of learning throughout the ages

(6) than the warrior or the administrator.

The essay

(P) like that of the human face,

(Q) because the variety is infinite,

(R) is a literary form

(S) which is not easy to define