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UPSC CDS 1 2020 English Paper

ORDERING OF SENTENCES

Directions: In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as SI and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on Answer Sheet.

Question : 41

Total: 120

S1 : Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 and educated at the Government College in Umuahia, Nigeria.
S6 : Chinua Achebe has written over twenty books, including novels, stories, essays and collections of poetry, and won the Nobel Prize for literature.
P : During the Civil War in Nigeria, he worked for the Biafran government service.
Q : After the War, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
R : He joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954, later becoming its Director of External Broadcasting.
S : He received a BA from London University in 1953 and in 1956 he studied broadcasting in London at the BBC.
The correct sequence should be

SRPQ
RPQS
PQRS
QRSP

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