UPSC CDS English Ordering of Sentences Part 1 Questions
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Directions (Q. Nos. 1-131) In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S 1 S 6 P , Q , R S
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S1 : Few scientists manage to break down the walls of the so-called ivory tower of academia and touch and inspire people who may not otherwise be interested in science.
S6 : Not many would have survived this, let alone excelled in the manner he did.
P : Stephen Hawking was one of these few.
Q : Around this time he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, an incurable motor neuron disease, and given two years to live.
R : Judging by the odds he faced as a young graduate student of physics at Cambridge University, nothing could have been a more remote possibility.
S : When he was about 20 years old, he got the shattering news that he could not work with the great Fred Hoyle for his PhD, as he had aspired to.
The correct sequence should be
S6 : Not many would have survived this, let alone excelled in the manner he did.
P : Stephen Hawking was one of these few.
Q : Around this time he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, an incurable motor neuron disease, and given two years to live.
R : Judging by the odds he faced as a young graduate student of physics at Cambridge University, nothing could have been a more remote possibility.
S : When he was about 20 years old, he got the shattering news that he could not work with the great Fred Hoyle for his PhD, as he had aspired to.
The correct sequence should be
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