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1EasyTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. However, recent studies have shown a correlation between regular exercise and improved mental health.

  2. Exercise has long been recognized as a key component of maintaining physical health.

  3. In addition to the physical benefits, exercise can also have a positive impact on mental well-being.

  4. This is particularly important in today's fast-paced and stressful society.

2EasyTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. If the waves don’t line up, the peaks and troughs cancel each other out, destroying coherence, and you won’t see anything odd.
  2. If you want to see strange quantum effects, waves all have to line up, so that the peaks and troughs coincide.
  3. When you’re dealing only with a single particle’s wave, on the other hand, it’s easy to keep it ‘in tune’ - it has to line up only with itself.
  4. Physicists call this property coherence: it's rather like musical notes being in tune.
3EasyTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. The controversy surrounding the casting of Halle Bailey and the changes made to The Little Mermaid highlight larger issues of representation and inclusion in the entertainment industry.

  2. The Little Mermaid remake, with its updated storyline and diverse casting, represents a step in the right Direction for questions for a more inclusive Hollywood.

  3. However, as the success of films like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians has shown, there is a hunger for stories that reflect a more diverse and inclusive world.

  4. The film industry has historically been dominated by white male voices, and the push for diversity and inclusivity has been met with resistance from some audiences.

4EasyTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. In our interactions with the avatar-selves of others, we might reveal little about our true personality or feelings, and know correspondingly little about others.
  2. Connections made through online gaming aren’t a substitute for other relationships.
  3. Encounters among avatars, particularly when competitive or combative, are often vitriolic, seemingly unrestrained by concern for the feelings of the people behind the avatars.
  4. Within a VR game, our avatar represents a pale imitation of our actual self and its entanglements.
5EasyTITA

The four sentences labelled (1, 2, 3, 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.

  2. But the real Internet, the brain behind the information superhighway, is an intricate set of protocols and rules that someone had to develop before we could get to the World Wide Web.

  3. Before the current iteration of the Internet, long-distance networking between computers was first accomplished in a 1969 experiment by two research teams at University of California, Los Angeles; and Stanford.

  4. What most of us think of as the Internet is really just the pretty face of the operation—browser windows, websites, URLs, and search bars.

6EasyTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. The system might experience shocks, but the result of all these minute decisions is that the economy eventually works its way back to a stable state.
  2. Mainstream economics is built on the premise that the economy is a machine-like system operating at equilibrium.
  3. This naive approach prevents us from coming to terms with the profound consequences of machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence.
  4. So, individual actors such as companies, government departments and consumers behave in a rational way.
7MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. With increasing reserve, the utility costs will increase due to the investments needed and the outage costs will decrease, and vice versa.

  2. The actual determination of the optimal reliability level requires knowledge of outage costs.

  3. This is problematic because it involves both objective measurable quantities and subjective perceptions of customers.

  4. The optimal reliability level can be obtained, minimizing the total cost, including reserve and outage costs.

8MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

  1. LLMs do not learn self-consistent models of the world.
  2. There is still no conclusive evidence that this is the case.
  3. Producing language used to be a uniquely human capability.
  4. LLMs convincing textual outputs make it all too easy to anthropomorphise them, to assume that LLMs also operate, reason and understand like humans do.
9MediumTITA

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.

(1) By contrast, Richard Wrangham, a biological anthropologist, thinks we were cooking 1.8 million years ago – and that the activity was not an outcome of being human but that being human was an outcome of cooking.

(2) Historians of the deep human past generally consider cooking to be a recent activity.

(3) This is a fantastically weird way of looking at evolutionary change. If cooking pushed us across a species threshold, it means that our biology is also shaped in completely unintended ways by cultural innovations.

(4) According to him, cooking physically transformed a creature that was more ape, into the earliest version of us, Homo erectus.

(5) A significant number of hearths have been unearthed around the 76,000 year mark, and there is diminishing archaeological evidence of controlled fire the further back you go, so the assumption is that once we became modern, we worked out how to cook.

10MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. Petrified with astonishment, Richard Seaton stared after the copper steam-bath upon which he had been electrolyzing his solution of 'X,' the unknown metal.
  2. He seized his prism binoculars and focused them upon the flying vessel, a speck in the distance.
  3. It had flown with terrific speed over the table, smashing apparatus and bottles of chemicals on its way, and was even now disappearing through the open window.
  4. For as soon as he had removed the beaker the heavy bath had jumped endwise from under his hand as though it were alive.
11MediumTITA

Four sentences are given below. These sentences, when rearranged in proper order, form a meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the sentences and enter the correct order as the answer.

Rather, that it takes a gravitational pull by those kindred to the cause who are already in relative positions of power or privilege.

He was of the opinion that no socially and politically marginalized group — not even a biological majority — moves to the center solely by its own efforts.

Whitman threw himself at righting — naturalizing — the gender imbalance of democracy not despite his maleness but precisely because of it.

At the heart of his devotion to equality was an astute insight into the paradox of power.

12MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. But alas,in the battle for knowledge and power in Antarctica, the land itself is losing.
  2. Activity that might seem inconsequential—leaving a footprint or watching penguins from feet away to study their behaviour—can influence the area in ways that we can’t always see immediately.
  3. Antarctic land and the animals that live on it, like other largely untouched environments, are extremely sensitive.
  4. Researchers have also found that tourists or other visitors have inadvertently brought invasive species, such as annual bluegrass, to the continent.
13MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

There may be several rounds of back and forth until the editors are satisfied that the report is ready for public consumption.

Journal editors then either reject the paper or require the authors to respond to questions and address reviewers’ criticisms.

This deliberation can take months before the final draft is approved for publication.

Traditionally, study reports aren’t made public until they have been submitted to a scholarly journal, which asks experts to critique them.

14MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. What he tells you is that there is a retreat in a lake for scholars weary of the world, founded by a famous poet of the Tang dynasty.
  2. The best quality he can conceive in any place is that it should be easy to get away from.
  3. A European, in recommending a place of residence, will tell you that it has a good train service.
  4. But a Chinaman will tell you nothing about the trains; if you ask, he will tell you wrong.
15MediumTITA

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. Economists, with near ubiquity, treat technology as being either labour displacing or labour reinstating.

  2. Under this dichotomy, the key question is whether technology creates more jobs than it destroys.

  3. If technology displaces workers, jobs are lost, on the contrary, if it generates work, jobs are created.

  4. The labour market impact of technology is often viewed through the lens of job creation or job destruction.

16MediumTITA

(A) Particular finger positions or gestures of the hand, common to their age and civilization, delivered a message that was instantly recognized by those who understood the symbolism. (B) Since ancient times hands have been used in cave paintings, drawings, sculpture and fine art as symbols of communication. (C) European religious paintings represented the Holy Trinity by the extended thumb, index and middle fingers of a hand. (D) Ancient Egyptian and Semitic art, for example, depicted celestial power by a hand painted in the sky. Choose the correct option.

  1. A

    A ADCB

  2. B

    B BADC

  3. C

    C BDAC

  4. D

    D ABDC

17HardTITA

Arrange the following four sentences into a coherent paragraph.

  1. This led Descartes to split the mind off from the world (and the body that was unarguably part of the world) in order to save it from reduction to physical mechanism.

  2. But in the inexorable march of the physical sciences and the mechanistic explanation of the world during the scientific revolution, the mind (and soul) were mortally threatened.

  3. During Descartes’s time, mind and world had been understood as entangled, interpenetrating, open to each other.

  4. All experience, meaning and purpose — once of mind and world both — were withdrawn from the world and put solely into Descartes’s new ‘mind-substance’, something that had not existed before.

18HardMCQ

The statements A–D when arranged in the correct order form a coherent passage starting with statement 1 and ending in statement 2. Find the correct ordering.

  1. Believers in omens tell us that, some time before Laud's trial and execution, he found his portrait fallen on to the floor, and predicted disaster; and they ask us to admit that this was more than a coincidence, especially as there are a hundred similar stories.

A) "Omens follow those who look to them," replied the explorer, and set forth on the expedition from which he never returned.

B) One day before he departed on his last expedition to Africa his horse stumbled, and Sir Walter Scott, who was with him, said: "I am afraid this is a bad omen."

C) Luckily we have examples which suggest that Park and not Scott was right.

D) They relate how the stumble of a horse proved as fatal an omen for Mungo Park as did the fall of a picture for Laud.

  1. Everyone knows the story of William the Conqueror's fall as he landed on the shores of England, and how, in order to calm the superstitious alarm of his followers, he called on them to observe how he had taken possession of the country with both hands.
  1. A

    CDAB

  2. B

    CDBA

  3. C

    DBCA

  4. D

    DBAC

19HardTITA

Five sentences are given below. These sentences, when rearranged in proper order, form a meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the sentences and enter the correct order.

  1. Yet school garrets and closets are full of hygiene textbooks unopened or little used, while of all subjects taught by five hundred thousand American teachers the least interesting to both teacher and pupil is that forced upon both by state legislation.

  2. In forty-five states and territories the teaching of hygiene with special reference to alcohol and tobacco is made compulsory.

  3. For the neglect of no other study may teachers be removed from office and fined.

  4. To hygiene alone, of the score of subjects found in our modern grammar-school curriculum, is given statutory right of way for so many minutes per week, so many pages per textbook, or so many pages per chapter.

  5. To complete the paradox, this least interesting subject happens also to be the most vital to the child, to the home, to industry, to social welfare, and to education itself.

20HardTITA

The following statements when properly arranged form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4). Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence.

  1. He walked uphill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, but because the hill, harness, mud, and mail were all so heavy that the horses had three times already come to a stop.

  2. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter's Hill.

  3. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, had read that article of war which forbade rebellion, and the team capitulated and returned to duty.

  4. It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.

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