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14.05 · Sentences & Paragraphs

Para Completion

Elite lesson8 rules10 questions

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Elite lesson40 minHinglish

Rules

At a glance 8 rules

  1. 1Say the point firstBefore reading the options, put the paragraph in one line: what it is about and where it is heading. The missing line finishes that thought.
  2. 2Conclude or continueDecide the job. A conclusion follows from the reasons given; a continuation extends the pattern, such as the third of 'three jobs'.
  3. 3Follow the pivotAfter 'but', 'yet' or 'however', the point is the part after the turn. The ending carries that side, not the view it answered.
  4. 4Nothing newCut any option that brings in a person, cause or topic the paragraph never set up, however true or sensible it sounds.
  5. 5Keep the strengthMatch the paragraph's hedges and tone: 'may help' cannot end as 'will cure', and one small result cannot end as 'always' or 'any price'.
  6. 6Check the arrowAn option can reuse the paragraph's words and still flip cause and effect or the direction of a result. Check which way it points.
  7. 7Pointers must land'This shift' or 'the fence' needs something just before it to point to. A blank mid-paragraph must link the line before to the line after.
  8. 8Explain the puzzleWhen the paragraph sets up a surprise ('yet', 'hardly changed'), the ending must explain it using every fact given, not just one.

Test yourself

10 questions · 3 easy · 4 medium · 3 hard

Tap an option to answer. The first tap counts.

  1. Q1Easy

    Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph. Our college bus used to leave the hostel at fixed times, and students often waited twenty minutes at the stop in the sun. Last month, the transport office added live tracking to the college app. Now most students step out only when the bus is five minutes away, and the crowd at the stop has thinned. ______

    Correct answerIn other words, knowing where the bus is has given students back the time they used to lose waiting for it.

    Why

    Say the point in one line: live tracking ended the long wait at the stop.

    The ending should finish that thought; air-conditioning, city traffic and scrapping the bus all leave it.

    So the answer is 'In other words, knowing where the bus is has given students back the time they used to lose waiting for it.'

  2. Q2Easy

    Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph. Many students treat one high score in a mock test as proof that they are ready for the real exam. Yet a single mock can mislead: an easy paper or two lucky guesses can lift a score by several marks. Toppers therefore track their scores across five or six mocks and note the kind of questions they keep getting wrong. ______

    Correct answerIt is the pattern over many tests, not one good day, that shows where a student really stands.

    Why

    Follow the pivot: after 'Yet', the point is that one mock can mislead while a run of mocks does not.

    The ending must carry that side, so the 'one strong score' line, the Sunday timing and 'stop taking mocks' all drop out.

    So the answer is 'It is the pattern over many tests, not one good day, that shows where a student really stands.'

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