Understanding the Meanings of 'Complaisant' and 'Complacent'

The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: In mechanical efforts, you improve by perpetual practice.

S6: There is neither excuse nor temptation for the latter.

P: He cannot go on shooting wide or falling short, and still fancy that he is making progress.

Q: This is so because the object to be attained is a matter of actual experiment in which you either succeed or fail.

R: He must either correct his aim or persevere in his error with his eyes open.

S: If a man aims at a mark with a bow and arrow, he must either hit it or aim it.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Isaac’s mother married again.

S6: He had a set of little tools and saw of various sizes made by himself.

P: But he was known to be very clever at making things.

Q: She sent him to school.

R: Isaac was left to the care of his good old grandmother.

S: In his early years Isaac did not appear to be a very bright student.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: The examination system must be regarded as the chief wrecker of young nerves.

S6: If I become a Vice-Chancellor, my first act would be to abolish all examinations in my university.

P: It makes me jump out of the bed, all in a sweat.

Q: It does this by building up a tension, for a part of the year, all through one’s youth.

R: And after four decades, the same nervousness sometimes recurs to me in nightmares.

S: I remember the desperate nervousness that used to grip me from January to April every year.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: History is a subject that is so little valued today that it is almost impossible to win world fame as a historian, yet that is exactly what Toynbee was able to.

S6: Among the civilizations that he studied was that of India.

P: We usually think of history as a chronological account of the development of various states and empires under the ruler.

Q: Toynbee’s view of history was different.

R: He tries to find the pattern behind the birth, growth and decay of civilization.

S: Though he used the recorded history of mankind, he was interested not merely in the chronology of single states or group but in the rise and fall of whole civilizations.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Science first began to become important after A.D. 1500.

S6: Men read them, became inquisitive again, and began to want to find things out.

P: As a result of this, books came to be circulated.

Q: During the Middle Ages the coming of Science was hindered by the Church.

R: In the middle of the fifteenth century, however, the Turks captured the city of Constantinople and the Greek books were scattered far and wide.

S: It considered the free inquiry into the nature of things to be wicked.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Phatik was a mischievous boy of fourteen.

S6: Ultimately he distinguished himself as a scholar.

P: It was then that Phatik’s uncle offered to take the boy to Kolkata.

Q: She was much worried about his education.

R: His mother found it difficult to bring him up.

S: Away from his home Phatik became sober and industrious.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Whenever I met Baba Amte I was reminded of an anecdote my grandmother used to tell me.

S6: Pie forgot that he had made it.

P: He once made an idol of God.

Q: As the idol was nearing completion, the sculptor was becoming more and more withdrawn into himself.

R: And the moment it was complete, he threw away his chisel and hammer and bowed to the idol of God he had just created.

S: There was a great sculptor.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Ross sent an account of his work, together with slide and specimens to Manson.

S6: Ross was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1901.

P: They produced a profound sensation.

Q: In July 1898, Manson described Ross’s results to the British Medical Association.

R: The President of the Royal Society came to Manson’s house and inspected Ross’s materials and said that ‘it was of remarkable interest and value’.

S: When Manson had finished, the whole audience rose and cheered.

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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.

S1: Civilization dawned when early man learnt how to produce heat and energy by burning wood.

S6: When they have been used, they cannot be replaced.

P: Then steam was used to produce electricity.

Q: In this century great use has been made of oil and natural gas and the use of atomic reactors has also provided another source of energy.

R: Much later, the first industrial revolution was based on the production of steam by burning coal.

S: But none of these fuels is renewable.

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