ibps-so 2018 · Question 146 of 356

Five deposit schemes on o er at a branch, lettered R to V, have been compared by the rate of interest that each of them carries, and the comparison runs as follows. Statements : R > S ≥ T; T = U > V Conclusions : I. V ≥ S II. R > U (A) Only conclusion I is true (B) Only conclusion II is true (C) Either conclusion I or conclusion II is true (D) Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II is true (E) Both conclusion I and conclusion II are true Directions (Q66–Q70) : A short account of the reform that established a uniform charge for the carriage of letters has been broken up, and its sentences are printed below out of their proper order. The ve sentences, labelled (A) to (E), form a coherent paragraph when they are arranged in the proper order. Rearrange them and then answer the questions that follow.

1. AThe arrangement was ingenious upon paper and unworkable in practice, since a recipient who did not care for a letter could simply decline to take it, leaving the Post O ce to bear the cost of having carried it across the country.
2. BOnce that was grasped, the reform passed from one country to another within a single generation, and the small adhesive label bought at a counter became the most widely imitated invention of the age.Correct
3. CRowland Hill's proposal was accordingly to charge one low sum, paid in advance by the sender and acknowledged by a label a xed to the cover, whatever the distance the letter had afterwards to travel.
4. DBefore 1840 the cost of sending a letter in England was paid by the person who received it, and was reckoned by the distance it had come and by the number of sheets it contained.
5. EThe Treasury objected that so uniform a charge must lose money upon every long journey, and some years passed before it was noticed that the expense of a letter lay almost wholly in the handling of it and hardly at all in the moving of it.