Direction (Q. 1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions :
A word arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and its rearrangement.
Input : quarries wages family afloat programme lifeline medicine squeeze.
Step – I : afloat quarries wages family programme lifeline medicine squeeze.
Step -II: afloat quarries family programme lifeline medicine squeeze wages.
Step -III: afloat family quarries programme lifeline medicine squeeze wages.
Step-IV: afloat family quarries programme lifeline medicine wages squeeze.
Step-V: afloat family lifeline quarries programme medicine wages squeeze.
Step-VI: afloat family lifeline programme medicine wages squeeze quarries.
Step-VII: afloat family lifeline medicine programme wages squeeze quarries.
Step-VIII: afloat family lifeline medicine wages squeeze quarries programme.
Step VIII is the last step of the above input.
As per rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate steps for the given input.
Input: years months really parents amazed written cope lines.
1. How many steps will be required to complete the arrangement of the above input ?
(a) Six
(b) Seven
(c) Eight
(d) Five
(e) None of these
2. Which of the following will be at 5th position from left in step V ?
(a) months
(b) really
(c) parents
(d) line
(e) None of these
3. What will be the position of ‘parents’ in step III ?
(a) Sixth from left
(b) Fourth from left
(c) Fourth from right
(d) Fifth from right
(e) None of these
4. If’ amazed’ is related to ‘parents’ and ‘cope’ is related to ‘years’ in the same way ‘months’ is related to which of the following in step VI ?
(a)really
(b) written
(c) line
(d) cope
(e) None of these
5. Which of the following steps would be the last step but one ?
(a) VI
(b) VII
(c) IV
(d) V
(e) None of these
Answers:
1.b
2.b
3.c
4.a
5.a
