Para Jumbles

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. 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. Where other people found it acceptable to say that trees and cities fell or winter followed summer because gods were squabbling, some Greeks began to appeal to law. A. Even Zeus, the greatest of the gods, is subject to destiny. B. Things happened as they did because there were timeless, and unintended relationships between different and discoverable factors. C. At first that law was simply Destiny that nothing is allowed to grow too high means that everything has limit. D. But if Zeus does not or cannot, by his arbitrary choice, subvert that law, perhaps we can do without him.
2. Other people found it easiest to defend particular stories by appeal to the chosen texts, some Greeks demanded reasons.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. 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. Rule makers and rule takers are the industry. A. Can you think of more than one or two? B. Rule breakers set out to redefine the industry and to invent the new by challenging the old. C. Can you think of any at all? D. Ask yourself, what are the fundamental conventions we have examined and abandoned in our company?
2. If not why not, as a senior executive, are you willing to embrace a subversive strategy making process?

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. 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. Since they offer the promise of new markets and technologies-won quickly and painlessly, strategic alliances are surging in popularity. A. Example is Corning's alliance with Siemens. B. And a number of successful corporate unions have certainly got their share of press. C. But these strategic alliances are actually exceptions to the rule. D. Another is General Electric Company's collaboration with the Japanese company Fanuc.
2. An estimated 60% fail. Why?

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. 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. Like other social animals we signaled to each other, marked out our favourite routes, played with children established hierarchies and listened to the experienced elders. A. There were warriors then, and, gardeners, builders, weavers, nurses, cooks, craftsmen and magicians. B. Why brothers and sisters must no longer mate, why we age and die, and why there is anything? C. There were probably also people with a reputation for recounting marvels, bringing messages from the sky or from our ancestors. D. The earliest tales seek to explain why nonhuman animals no longer speak in human tongues, why the sky no longer rests upon the earth.
2. Some told more elaborate stories to accommodate what seemed to be mistaken.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. 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. Better still, consider a truly advanced social system: the beehive. A. The bees decide collectively, responding to the informative dances of the scouts and then swarming off to the place they like best. B. The worker bees are adults, so to speak, who know exactly what they have to do. C. Queen Bees don't empower worker bees. D. Indeed, the queen bee has no role in the genuinely strategic decisions of the hive, such as the one to move to a new location.
2. The queen simply follows.

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

A. The successive renunciations by Western nations in favor of the colored people have sprung not only from a timely revision of previously accepted political and social principles, but also from more profound causes having their origin in what Oswald Spengler has called “the decline of the West.” B. Anti-colonialism, the leveling of intellectual values from below, the making uniform of human conditions, and the equal value attributed arbitrarily to all individuals from the moment that they are labeled “men” - all these tendencies have joined to form a vast array in which the scientific progress of our civilization seems to have its counterpart a moral enfeeblement. C. Modern man, obliged to examine his conscience, finds that it is a bad one. D. He is ashamed of that of which he was once proud.