Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together:

  1. A substantial part of resources should be channelised to coaching programmes. A. Our sports infrastructure is very poor. B. Even in their acme, players have found wolves staring right in their faces. C. Funds wasted on organizational pomp should be diverted to provide sports infrastructure. D. Sporting activity plays a second fiddle to bread–earning.
  2. Various training programmes die a lingering death starved of funds.

  1. ACDB

  2. CDAB

  3. BDAC

  4. ADCB

  5. ACBD
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Sentences A, C and 6, all talk about lack of sports infrastructure and the need to divert funds for development thereof. Therefore, order AC6 should form part of our logical sequence. In sentence B, players even at the peak of their careers find wolves staring in their face; and in sentence D, sporting activity has been described as playing second fiddle to bread earning. Therefore, BD is logically correct.

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