Multiple choice

Directions: In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and the final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark accordingly on the answer sheet.

S1 : Pasteur began his fruitful scientific investigations when he was Professor of Chemistry at Strashurg. S6 : The pasteurization process which he prescribed for wine and beer is used now to safeguard milk too. P : He also found how germs causing changes in materials could be controlled by heat. Q : He made a thorough study of the wine industry in France. R : He thus saved the wine industry from ruin by his work. S : After careful and extensive investigation he produced the germ theory of fermentation. The proper sequence should be

  1. P Q R S

  2. Q P S R

  3. S Q P R

  4. Q S P R
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D Correct answer
Explanation

QSPR. The first sentence opens with the information regarding Pasteur. The next one will be the information regarding the work he did. The next sentence that follows will be the one where we are told about the way he produced the germ theory of fermentation. The next one will be the information that he ‘also’ found how germs causing changes in materials could be controlled. These two might confuse the test taker but the word ‘also’ is the clue that this sentence should follow the one where we are told about his main work. Then the sentence that helps us draw the conclusion that he saved the wine industry from ruin, through his work. This would conclude with the final sentence that is already given.

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