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Directions: In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and ‘labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on Answer Sheet.

S1: “Every person carries in his head a mental model of the world — a subjective representation of external reality,” writes Alvin Toffler in Future Shock.

S6: When we begin to think, we can do so only because our mind is already filled with all sorts of ideas with which to think.

P: It organizes our knowledge and gives us a place from which to argue.

Q: This mental model is, he says, like a giant filing cabinet.

R: It contains a slot for every item of information coming to us.

S: As E.F. Schumacher says, “When we think, we do not just think; we think ideas.”

The correct sequence should be

PSRQ
SPRQ
QRPS
RQPS

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