Q. One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot.
R. This parrot not only spoke well, but it had the gift of telling all that had been done before it.
S. He brought it home in a cage and asked his wife to put it in her room and take great care of it while he was away.
In the below questions, sentence/passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R & S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.
P. Suddenly Neil realized that his son's bed was empty.
Q. Back in the cottage, Neil was awakened by an insistent ticking.
R. It certainly seemed lousy.
S. He sat up and glanced in annoyance at his alarm clock.
Given below are six sentences, out of which sentences A and F are in the correct position. Sentences B, C, D and E are in a jumbled order. Select the option that gives the correct order.
A. Folk tales offer lots of advice.
B. Most of them deliver the message clearly.
C. The reason was that he was not properly dressed.
D. There is a story of Birbal not being allowed to attend the king’s free lunch.
E. This happened despite his high intellectual abilities.
F. The advice thus conveyed is ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’