PASSAGE
The casual horrors and the real disasters are thrown at newspaper readers without discrimination. In the contemporary arrangements for circulating the news, an important element, evaluation, is always weak and often wanting entirely. There is no point anywhere along the line where someone puts his foot down for certain and says "This is important and That doesn't amount to a row of beans, deserves no one's attention, and should travel the wires no farther". The junk is dressed up to look as meaningful as the real news.
(1) Newspapers lack a sense of discrimination because
(a) they do not separate the real news from mere sensationalism.
(b) they have to accept whatever is received on the wires.
(c) limited manpower makes serious evaluation impossible
(d) people don't see the difference between 'junk' and 'real' news.
VERBAL ABILITY
Directions: The following passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning and labeled A and Z respectively. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper order for the four sentences.
A: As I say, I was born and brought up in an atmosphere of the confluence of three movements, all of which were revolutionary.
Z: He should not only have own seeds but prepare his own soil.
P: I was born in a family which had to live its own life,
which led me from my young days to seek guidance for
my own self-expression in my own inner standard of
judgment.
Q: No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from
some shop of respectability.
R: But the language, which belonged to the people, had
to be modulated according to the urging which I as an
individual had.
S: The medium of expression doubtless was my mother
tongue.
The proper sequence should be:
(a) PQ R S (b) PS R Q
(c) PQ S R (d) Q S R P
