- 1Here are bloodless battles – dogfights out of which both the dogs emerge exhausted but cheerful.2A contest in itself is almost an absorbing spectacle, and it is only odious so far as some element of cruelty or brutality enters into it.3Here is all the keenness of rivalry without its murderous malevolence.4Games, better than anything else, provide us contests from which we need not shrink out of kindness of heart.
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Solution
Answer: (2, 4, 1, 3) The text is about the importance of games in providing a good spectacle as well as non-violent contest and rivalry. Option (2) introduces the topic - absorbing spectacle. Option (4)introduces games as the best form of contest. 'Here are bloodless battles" (plural) in option (1) refers to games in option (4). Option (3) elaborates on 'exhausted and cheerful" in Option (1).
- 1It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience in this public life, but foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage.2The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is there that leaders of the country are trained.3It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.4Education there is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life.
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Solution
Answer: (2, 4, 1, 3) The text is about the importance of universities for learning the statecraft.
Option (2) introduces the topic by talking about the importance of universities. Option (4) makes it more specific about university education. Option (1) elaborates the importance of foundations at early stage. ...from this university teaching in option (3) refers to the university education in (4).
- 1By beginning so early, he knows that he has plenty of time to do all his work thoroughly; he is not tempted to hurry over any part of it.2After a sound night’s rest he rises early next morning in good health and spirits for the labors of a new day.3He gets to sleep several hours before midnight at the time when sleep is most refreshing.4In many cases the early riser also finds time to take some exercise in the fresh morning air, and this exercise supplies him with a reserve of energy that will last until the evening.5All his work having been finished in good time, he has a long interval of rest in the evening before the timely hour when he goes to bed.
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Solution
Answer: (4, 1, 5, 3, 2) The paragraph is about the early riser'. Option (4) begins the discussion.
The sequence begins from early rising (4) and continues with plenty of time to do his work in Option (1), work finished in time and going to bed (5), gets to sleep early, most refreshing (3), and after a sound night's sleep in Option (2).