In the following question, two columns are given containing three phrases each. In the first column, phrases are A, B, and C, and in the second column, the phrases are D, E, and F. A phrase from the first column may or may not connect with a phrase from the second column to make a grammatically and contextually correct sentence. There are five options, four of which display the sequence(s) in which the phrases can be joined to form a grammatically and contextually correct sentence. If none of the options forms a correct sentence after combination, select ‘None of these’ as your answer.
| Column 1) | Column 2) |
| (A) Iraq and Syria are particularly vulnerable to | (D) remain active as long as these countries remain unstable. |
| (B) The answer would not have been to end flights but to | (E) the IS’s resurgence as these countries are yet to be fully stabilised after the wars. |
| (C) Chaos breeds militancy, and as the main group here is the IS, it would | (F) avoid the height of the monsoon and to take wide-bodied aircraft off the menu. |
1
A-F and B-D
2
A-E, B-D and C-F
3
A-D and B-F
4
A-E, B-F and C-D
5
None of these