Direction: The sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. The government's recent efforts have concentrated on strengthening these ties.

B. The textile industry in India is one of the country's oldest, stretching back several centuries.

C. The textile business is immensely diverse, with hand-spun and hand-woven textiles at one end of the spectrum and capital-intensive modern mills at the other.

D. Its tight ties to agriculture (for raw materials such as cotton) and the country's old history and traditions in terms of textiles set it apart from other sectors in the country.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Nostalgia helps us maintain a positive psychological status when counteracting the negative impact of difficult situations.

B. Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for one's past.

C. The adaptive functions of nostalgia are many, with one effect being pain relief.

D. It is a self-conscious, perhaps bittersweet but predominantly positive social emotion.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

S1. A moment comes

A. long suppressed

B. and when the soul of a nation

C. which comes but rarely in history

D. when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends

S6. finds utterance.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. The 1995 World Summit for Social Development had also emphasised the pivotal role of women in eradicating poverty and mending the social fabric.

B. Women are rational in approach, careful in handling situations and want to do things as best as possible.

C. The Fourth World Conference of Women held in Beijing in September 1995 had emphasised that no enduring solution of society’s most threatening social, economic and political problems could be found without the participation and empowerment of the women.

D. Today’s woman is a highly self-directed person, alive to the sense of her dignity and the importance of her functions in the private domestic domain and the public domain of the world of work.