Question 1:
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Another of his start-ups was sold to Google.
- He founded the first company to sell virtual reality products.
- But unlike most of his fellow technologists, he eventually came to feel that the rise of digital networks was no panacea.
- He was there, more or less, at its creation.
- Lanier has an unusual authority to criticize the digital economy:
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Question 2:
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Two reforms are possible here. The first is to encourage more entrants, since competition will reduce the incentive to store for long periods.
- However, if storage facilities are controlled by a small group of middlemen who procure in large volumes to manipulate price, it amounts to market failure.
- Hence, creation of storage facilities is encouraged in policy circles.
- Indian agriculture is vulnerable to sharp price cycles.
- The second is to bring in some degree of transparency and market intelligence.
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Question 3:
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Lying at the point where the Eurasian plate constantly bumps up against the Indo-Australian plate, volcanoes in the archipelago have long been associated with outsized eruptions, deaths and misery.
- With some 130 active volcanoes, Indonesia is a hotbed of tectonic plate activity.
- The flip side of the destruction is the availability of a vast amount of geothermal energy that if harnessed, can provide Indonesia with the kind of clean and reliable energy source it is in desperate need of.
- The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, for example, killed more than 36,000 people and is considered to be one of the loudest sounds ever heard in modern history.
- But all this geological ferment is not an unmitigated negative.
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