Find the irrelevant sentences in the following paragraphs . -4
1 . ( I ) The acts of a single man are as a rule unimportant nowadays . ( II ) But the acts of groups are more important than they used to be . ( III ) If one man refuses to work , that is his own affair . ( IV ) After all , everyone stops working when he retires . ( V ) But if there is a strike in a vital industry , the whole community suffers .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
2 . ( I ) Actually London dates back to Roman times . ( II ) Greater London , with its nine miIIion population , includes the City and the County of London . ( III ) It also includes the outer suburbs and much land that looks more urban than rural . ( IV ) There are no definite boundaries , but it covers an area of some twenty miles radius from Oxford Circus ( V ) It is surrounded by a " a green belt " and here it is forbidden to build .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
3 . ( I ) A thick layer of snow on a steep slope is always liable to avalanche . ( II ) A lot of avalanches occur in the Alps . ( III ) A very small disturbance may set it in motion . ( IV ) The vibrations caused by a passing train are sufficient . ( V ) Once in motion it gains in speed and crushes everything in its path .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
4 . ( I ) At the end of 1974 , the prospects of the country were far from rosy . ( II ) To start with , the rate of inflation was steadily going up . ( III ) It only dropped temporarily in July and August . ( IV ) So were the unemployment figures . ( V ) And the cold winter served to aggravate all the problems .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
5 . ( I ) Queen Christina brought foreign scholars to the palace , among whom was the philosopher Rene Descartes . ( II ) She demanded that Descartes came to instruct her at 5.00 a . m . three days a week , which he did , even though he was a late-riser . ( III ) Christina , on the other hand , rarely got out of bed before noon , and often slept through lunch . ( IV ) She questioned him about the interplay between science and religion . ( V ) He tried to persuade her that all animals were mechanisms and she responded that she had never seen a watch give birth .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
6 . ( I ) As a writer , Emile Zola waged two great battles . ( II ) One was the long struggle for the acceptance of his powerful novels , and the other the courageous defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the political-military scandal that divided France . ( III ) Slowly the truth of the case began to emerge , and it met the furious opposition of those who wanted the case kept closed . ( IV ) Zola won both fights . ( V ) The critics and the public both realised that his novels were serious studies of mankind , and Dreyfus was eventually exonerated .
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V
7 . ( I ) The urge to travel is as old as civilization . ( II ) However , due to the huge amounts of money required , worldwide travel is mostly enjoyed by the citizens of developed countries . ( III ) The great historian Herodotus roamed the ancient world , examining the customs of many lands before writing his famous ' History '. ( IV ) Hundreds of years later , a young man from Venice named Marco Polo set out with his father for China , and his writings opened the Far East to Europeans of his time . ( V ) About the same time Ibn Battutah , an Islamic scholar , travelled about 75,000 miles and recorded his wanderings in the widely-read ' Rihlah ', meaning Travels '.
A ) I B ) II C ) III D ) IV E ) V