Rearrangement of Jumbled Sentences in Paragraphs

 

Format I

Construction of a coherent paragraph:

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. (A) In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.

(B) In June 1944, Germany’s military position in World War II appeared hopeless.

(C) In Britain, the task of amassing men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.

(D) The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.

(E) The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

 

(1) EDACB (2) BEDAC (3) BDECA (4) CEDAB

 

2. (A) He felt justified in bypassing the Congress altogether on a variety of moves.

(B) At times, he was fighting the entire Congress.

(C) Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.

(D) Bush was not fighting just the democrats.

(E) Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.

 

(1) CAEDB (2) DBAEC (3) CEADB (4) ECDBA

 

3. (A) The two neighbours never fought with each other.

(B) Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.

(C) They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.

(D) We recorded 17 cases in which a resident who was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.

(E) We, therefore, tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

 

(1) BEDAC (2) DEBAC (3) BDCAE (4) BCEDA

 

4. (A) Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the

world to cope with the mass motorization that will one day come to China or India.

(B) But once hydrogen is being produced from business or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole

system.

(C) In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any

existing engines.

(D) That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only fi ve per cent better than a diesel hybrid.

(E) Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30 per cent.

 

(1) CEDBA (2) CEBDA (3) AEDBC (4) ACEBD

 

5. (A) But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians’ only preoccupation.

(B) Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.

(C) Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.

(D) Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were hurried in simple graves.

(E) We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.

 

(1) CDBEA (2) ECDAB (3) EDCBA (4) DECAB

 

 

Answers

1. 2, The time (1944) should come first and after that the situation should be described. There is only one choice that fits.

2. 4, ‘E’ gives the introduction to the paragraph “representative democracy” and statement ‘C’ directly follows since Bush was trying to correct that.

3. 1, ‘B’ provides the introduction to the paragraph, and there is a clear link between statement ‘B’ and ‘E’. This is

given only in option (1).

4. 1, The link here is CED, ‘C’ says that fuel cells deliver better fuel economy than any existing engines. ‘E’ and ‘D’

support the idea in ‘C’.

5. 3, ‘C’ and ‘B’ are linked as ‘C’ tells us that most of our traditional sources of information are pyramids and tombs.

 

 

 

Format II

In the following questions, the first and the last sentences of the passage are in order and numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R, and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order, as they should appear in the paragraph. Read the passage and find out which of the four combinations (marked a–d) correctly forms the sequence of sentences in the passage:

(1) S1. There was once a hardworking and poor, but well contended, farm worker.

P. The farm worker buried the silver coins under the ground.

Q. He used to work all day in his farm and enjoy the gifts of nature.

R. The village Sarpanch gave him a bag containing some silver coins to keep.

S. His rich Sarpanch took pity upon the farm-worker.

S6. From that day the poor farm-worker’s happiness vanished.

(a) SQPR (b) QSRP (c) RQPS (d) QSRP

 

(2) S1. Anything you do that gives you some form of mental relaxation and peace will benefit  your heart and body.

P. In fact, never choose an activity just because it is good for you.

Q. By all means do some relaxing exercises, and even tire yourself to some extent perhaps.

R. If you can combine these with enjoyment as a routine then so much the better.

S. You will soon get bored of it.

S6. But do not indulge in very hard exercises; tune into the warning signals from your body.

(a) QSRP (b) PRSQ (c) QRPS (d) PSRQ

 

(3) S1. His son fell into the bad company of village boys.

P. The father wanted to wean his son from the bad company.

Q. A few days later all the bananas got spoiled.

R. His father was much worried about his son’s bad company.

S. To give a lesson to the son, his father gave him a few good bananas along with a rotten one.

S6. The boy understood the lesson his father wanted to teach him.

(a) PSRQ (b) SQPR (c) RPQS (d) RPSQ

(4) S1. Lady crocodile was cruel and wicked.

P. One day she pretended to be very ill and started shedding tears.

Q. She thought of a plan to get the monkey over her place.

R. She said to him, “The doctor says that I can get well only if I can eat monkey’s heart.”

S. The monkey was very worried when he saw this. He sat by her bedside and promised to do anything she asked

him to do.

S6. The crocodile was very sad when she heard this. She could not think of doing her friend any harm.

(a) QPSR (b) QPRS (c) SRQP (d) SQRP

(5) S1. On Diwali the family rises early in the morning.

P. The whole family, including the young and the old, enjoy doing this.

Q. Children light fireworks later in the night with their friends.

R. At sunset, lamps are lit. The whole family enjoys doing this.

S. Father, mother and children visit relatives and exchange gifts and sweets.

S6. Houses look so pretty with lighted lamps all around.

(a) PSQR (b) PSRQ (c) QSRP (d) RSPQ

 

 

 

Answers 1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (b)