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Jumbled paragraph Restructure

Description: Rearrange the jumbled paragraph to form a meaningful paragraph.
Number of Questions: 15
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Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Sight or feeling conveys an idea of the actual motion of bodies; but as to that wonderful force or power, which would carry on a moving body for ever in a continued change of place, and which bodies never lose, but by communicating it to others; of this we cannot form the most distant conception.B. But notwithstanding this ignorance of natural powers and principles, we always presume, when we see like sensible qualities, that they have like secret powers, and expect that effects, similar to those which we have experienced, will follow from them. C. It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of those objects entirely depends. D. This is a process of the mind or thought, of which one could willingly know the foundation.

  1. ABDC

  2. BDCA

  3. CABD

  4. BCDA

  5. CDAB


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

‘This ignorance of natural powers’ in B follows ‘while she conceals from us’ in C and ‘of this, we cannot form the most distant conception’ in A. Hence, CABD is correct.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Humanity does not yet say, I am God: such a usurpation would shock its piety. B. In the days of the patriarchs God made an alliance with man; now, to strengthen the compact, God is to become a man. C. Then, after this humiliation of the infinite, man will still pretend that he has elevated the ideal of his God in making, by a logical conversion, him whom he had always called creator, a saviour, a redeemer. D. He will take on our flesh, our form, our passions, our joys, and our sorrows; will be born of woman, and die as we do. E. In making himself like God, man made God like himself: this correlation, which for many centuries had been execrated, was the secret spring which determined the new myth.

  1. EBDCA

  2. ABCDE

  3. BEDCA

  4. DECAB

  5. ADCBE


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

‘He will take on our flesh’ in D should follow ‘God is to become a man’ in B. ‘After this humiliation of the infinite’ in C should follow D. So, we have the BDC link. A and E should either begin or conclude the para. Hence, EBDCA is correct.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The migrations of mankind from that original home cannot be intelligently mapped until that home has been discovered, and, further, until the geology of the globe is so thoroughly known that the different phases of its geography can be presented; and these must be settled upon purely geologic and paleontological evidence. B. Since that time, the surface of the earth has undergone many and important changes. C. If we accept the conclusion that there is but one species of man, we may reasonably conclude that the species has been dispersed from some common centre; but this original home has not yet been ascertained with certainty. D. All known camp and village sites, graves, mounds, and ruins belong to that portion of geologic time known as the present epoch, and are entirely subsequent to the period of the original dispersion as shown by geologic evidence. E. The dispersion of man must have been anterior to the development of any but the rudest arts.

  1. ABCDE

  2. AECDB

  3. CAEDB

  4. BCDEA

  5. CAEBD


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

‘Since that time’ in B refers to ‘period of the original dispersion’ in D. ‘That original home’ in A refers to C. So, we have the CA and DB links that lead us to CAEDB.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. During the first twelve hours, the minute vessels in the vicinity of the wound dilate, and from them lymph exudes and leucocytes migrate into the tissues. B. When a wound is made in the integument under aseptic conditions, the passage of the knife through the tissues is immediately followed by an oozing of blood, which soon coagulates on the cut surfaces. C. In each of the divided vessels, a clot forms, and extends as far as the nearest collateral branch; and on the surface of the wound, there is a microscopic layer of bruised and devitalised tissue. D. If the wound is closed, the narrow space between its edges is occupied by a blood-clot, which consists of red and white corpuscles mixed with a quantity of fibrin, and this forms a temporary uniting medium between the divided surfaces.

  1. DCBA

  2. BCDA

  3. CBAD

  4. ACDB

  5. BDAC


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

‘Divided vessels’ in C refers to the cut in B. Closing of the wound in D has to follow both B and C. Hence, BCDA is correct.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Every one will readily allow that there is a considerable difference between the perceptions of the mind, when a man feels the pain of excessive heat, or the pleasure of moderate warmth, and when he afterwards recalls to his memory this sensation, or anticipates it by his imagination. B. The utmost we say of them, even when they operate with greatest vigour, is, that they represent their object in so lively a manner, that we could almost say we feel or see it. C. These faculties may mimic or copy the perceptions of the senses; but they never can entirely reach the force and vivacity of the original sentiment. D. But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity, as to render these perceptions altogether undistinguishable. E. All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip. F. The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

  1. ABCDEF

  2. EBCDFA

  3. FADCBE

  4. ACBDEF

  5. EFCBDA


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

'These faculties' in C refers to 'recalls' or anticipates' in A. 'Never paint' in E follows 'they never can arrive'. F is the conclusion.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Some naturalists have maintained that all variations are connected with the act of sexual reproduction; but this is certainly an error; that is, of plants which have suddenly produced a single bud with a new and sometimes widely different character from that of the other buds on the same plant.B. As buds on distinct trees, growing under different conditions, have sometimes yielded nearly the same variety, we clearly see that the nature of the conditions is of subordinate importance in comparison with the nature of the organism in determining each particular form of variation. C. They occur rarely under nature, but are far from rare under culture. D. As a single bud out of many thousands produced year after year on the same tree under uniform conditions, has been known suddenly to assume a new character. E. These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. and sometimes by seed.

  1. AECDB

  2. BCDEA

  3. ADCBE

  4. BEDCA

  5. ABDEC


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The para is about variations in plant buds; and the concept is introduced in A. ‘These bud variations’ in E would follow A and ‘they occur rarely’ in C follows E. ‘As bud ..on a single tree’ and ‘as buds on distinct trees’ in D and B will be placed together at the end. Hence, AECDB is correct.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The cathedral builders excelled all others in the artfulness with which they established and maintained a relation between their architecture and the stature of a man. B. This is perhaps one reason why the French and English cathedrals, even those of moderate dimensions are more truly impressive than even the largest of the great Renaissance structures, such as St. Peter's in Rome. C. That architecture is not necessarily the most awe-inspiring which gives the impression of having been built by giants for the abode of pigmies; like the other arts, architecture is highest when it is most human. D. The medieval builders, true to this dictum, employed stones of a size proportionate to the strength of a man working without unusual mechanical aids E. A gigantic order furnishes no true measure for the eye: its vastness is revealed only by the accident of some human presence which forms a basis of comparison.

  1. ABCDE

  2. ABECD

  3. CBEDA

  4. BDCEA

  5. CDABE


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'The reason' in B answers why 'cathedral builders excelled' in A. 'This dictum' in D refers to 'architecture is highest when it is most human' in C. Hence, ABECD

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense.

I. If the supporters of what may be termed the naturalistic theory of politics, mean but to insist on the necessity of these three conditions; if they only mean that no government can permanently exist which does not fulfill the first and second conditions, and, in some considerable measure, the third; their doctrine, thus limited, is incontestable. A. But, considered practically, these alleged requisites of political institutions are merely so many facilities for realising the three conditions. B. Whatever they mean more than this appears to be untenable. C. There is a great quantity of mere sentimentality connected with these and similar phrases, over and above the amount of rational meaning contained in them. D. All that we are told about the necessity of an historical basis for institutions, of their being in harmony with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing to the purpose.

  1. BDAC

  2. DBCA

  3. BDCA

  4. ABCD

  5. CBAD


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

'More than this appears to be untenable' in B links up directly with 'limited, is incontestable' in I. A logically concludes the argument. Hence, BDCA

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense.

I. Theology does not deal with motion and is abstract and separable, for the Divine Substance is without either matter or motion. A. Likewise earth is not earth by reason of unqualified matter, [15] but by reason of dryness and weight, which are forms. B. In Physics, then, we are bound to use scientific, in Mathematics, systematical, in Theology, intellectual concepts; and in Theology we will not let ourselves be diverted to play with imaginations, but will simply apprehend that Form which is pure form and no image, which is very Being and the source of Being. C. Thus a statue is not a statue on account of the brass which is its matter, but on account of the form whereby the likeness of a living thing is impressed upon it: the brass itself is not brass because of the earth which is its matter, but because of its form. D. For everything owes its being to Form.

  1. BCDA

  2. BDCA

  3. ABCD

  4. BACD

  5. ADBC


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

C explains D. 'Earth' in A is a continuation of C. We have the DCA link only in BDCA.

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense.

I. There are many who claim as theirs the dignity of the Christian religion; but that form of faith is valid and only valid which, both on account of the universal character of the rules and doctrines affirming its authority, and because the worship in which they are expressed has spread throughout the world, is called catholic or universal. A. In fact, the difference between three or more things lies in genus or species or number. Difference is the necessary correlative of sameness. Sameness is predicated in three ways. B. Therefore Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God, not three Gods. The principle of this union is absence of difference: difference cannot be avoided by those who add to or take from the Unity, who break it up and convert it to Plurality. C. For the essence of plurality is otherness; apart from otherness plurality is unintelligible. D. The belief of this religion concerning the Unity of the Trinity is as follows: the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God.

  1. DBCA

  2. CBAD

  3. DABC

  4. ABDC

  5. BADC


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'This religion' in D connects with Christian religion in I. 'Therefore Father, Son, and Holy Spirit' in B connects with D. 'The essence of plurality' in C connects with B. Hence, DBCA

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Vast continents have been inundated; seas have usurped the dominion of the earth. At length retiring, these waters have left striking proofs of their presence; the marine vestiges present in the bowels of fertile lands we now inhabit - subterraneous fires have opened to themselves the most frightful volcanoes, frightful reminders of what might have been. B. But when history should be silent, would not our own reflection on what passes under our eyes be sufficient to convince us, that all parts of our globe have been, and following the course of things, will necessarily be again violently agitated in a state of conflagration? C. What, then, must have been the fears of man, who beheld the entire nature armed against his peace, menacing with destruction his very abode? D. The traditions and annals of all people recall, even at this day, melancholy events, physical disasters, dreadful catastrophes, which had the effect of spreading universal terror among our forefathers. E. The elements have thus, at various times, disputed among themselves the empire of our globe; evidenced by those vast heaps of wreck, those stupendous ruins spread over its surface.

  1. ABCDE

  2. CDBAE

  3. BDCAE

  4. DBAEC

  5. DAEBC


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

D has all the characteristics of the opening lines of a story. A provides the examples for B and E concludes them with 'thus'. Also 'vast heaps of wreck' in E links up with 'reminders of what might have been' in A. Hence, DBAEC

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Were the loosest and freest conversation to be transcribed, there would immediately be observed something which connected it in all its transitions. B. Or where this is wanting, the person who broke the thread of discourse might still inform you, that there had secretly revolved in his mind a succession of thought, which had gradually led him from the subject of conversation. C. In our more serious thinking or discourse this is so observable that any particular thought, which breaks in upon the regular tract or chain of ideas, is immediately remarked and rejected. D. And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures, but that there was still a connection upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other. E. It is evident that there is a principle of connection between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain degree of method and regularity.

  1. ECDAB

  2. ABCDE

  3. ABDCE

  4. CDBAE

  5. ADCBE


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'And even in our wildest' in D follows 'in our more serious thinking' in C. 'Where this is wanting' in B refers to 'something which is connected' in A.  Hence, ECDAB.

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense. I. Columella Well says that in reading the ancient writers we may find in them more to approve than to disapprove, however much our new science may lead us to differ from them in practice. A. The Romans achieved their results by thoroughness and patience. It was thus that they defeated Hannibal and it was thus that they built their farm houses and fences, cultivated their fields, their vineyards and their olive-yards, and bred and fed their live stock. B. Varro quotes one of their proverbs Romanus sedendo vincit, which illustrates my present point. C. The characteristics of the Roman methods of farm management, viewed in the light of the present state of the art in America, were thoroughness and patience. D. The Romans had learned many things which we are now learning again, such as green manuring with legumes, soiling, seed selection, the testing of soil for sourness, the preservation of the chemical content of manure and the composting of the rubbish of a farm, but they brought to their farming operations some thing more which we have not altogether learned--the character which made them a people of enduring achievement.

  1. BCDA

  2. BDCA

  3. CBDA

  4. CDBA

  5. ACDB


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The opening sentence (I) states that we have much to learn from ancient texts. Either D or C should follow I. B explains the enduring achievement mentioned towards the end of D. But C (farm management) cannot follow B (Roman endurance). Hence, CDBA

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense.

I. The birds are summoned to meet in general council. A. The new Utopia is duly constructed, and the daring plan to secure the sovereignty is in a fair way to succeed. B. They come flying up from all quarters of the heavens, and after a brief misunderstanding, during which they come near tearing the two human envoys to pieces, they listen to the exposition of the latter's plan. C. All steam of sacrifice will be prevented from rising to Olympus, and the Immortals will very soon be starved into an acceptance of any terms proposed. D. This is nothing less than the building of a new city, to be called Nephelococcygia, or Cloud-cuckoo-town, between earth and heaven, to be garrisoned and guarded by the birds in such a way as to intercept all communication of the gods with their worshippers on earth.

  1. ABCD

  2. BCDA

  3. BDCA

  4. ACBD

  5. BDAC


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

‘They’ in B directly refers to ‘the birds’ in I. ‘This’ in D refers to ‘the latter’s plan’ in B. ‘Immortals’ in C refers to the ‘gods’ in D. A forms the conclusion. Hence, BDCA

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