IPMAT Rohtak Verbal Ability > Parajumbles PYQs

"But" (I) Doordarshan is also a great window to the global market place. Goods and services are continuously being sold through Doordarshan's dream world. (II) All news is elite centered; but Doordarshan telecast is usually more ethnocentric. Its accent is on people, places and events. (III) With over 1 billion people talking in several languages and a variety of lifestyles to boot, it is obvious one cannot address all of them together all the time. (IV) Doordarshan's promotions must go beyond mere reportage of facts, and capture the story between the lines.

"Because" (I) It is ironic, not tragic, that minorities in our country have come to be identified with religion and not with community or profession. (II) The establishment of many such organizations are testimony to the growing antagonism to secularism. (III) Secularism today is being taken as a threat to religious identities, to the existence of religious diversities, though secularism was never conceived as such. (IV) This is the reason that secularism today has come to mean as preservation of religious minorities in their traditional modes.

S1: The future beckons to us.<br>P: In fact we have hard work ahead.<br>Q : Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?<br>R : We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease.<br>S : It will be to bring freedom and oppurtunity to the common man.<br>S6: There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full.

S1: I had halted on the road.<br>P: As soon as I saw the elephant I knew I should not shoot him.<br>Q : It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant.<br>R : I knew that his 'must' was already passing off.<br>S : The elephant was standing 8 yards from the road.<br>S6: I decided to watch him for a while and then go home.

S1 : A noise started above their heads.<br>P: But people did not take it seriously.<br>Q : That was to show everyone that there was something wrong<br>R : It was a dangerous thing to do.<br>S : For, within minutes the shipbegan to sink.<br>S6: Nearly 200 lives were lost.