NDA2015General AbilityEnglishActual
In items in this section, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper order for the four sentences. S1 : Hope springs eternally in the heart of man. S6 : This is the central idea of the poem. P : But hope is
Options
- AQ P R S
- BS R Q P
- CR S Q P
- DQ P S R
Correct answer
C. R S Q P
Step-by-step solution
The correct sequence is RSQP. The sentence S1 describes how hope springs eternally in the heart of man. The next sentence should be R because it describes the elements of hope and how they are nursed by nature. Thus the next sentence should be S which describes the nature and ideal of hope. The following sentence should be Q because it describes love, friendship and youth perish and is in continuation of S. The next sentence should be its continuity that all these perish but hope remains and hence P. It is in conti