English Language

Para Jumbles

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Para Jumbles Questions

Multiple choice

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 remedies appear to be legal, social and economic.

B. How do we protect these interests of women?

C. If males deny due rights to women in the family either because it is culturally approved, because the women themselves tolerate it and do not revolt, because no punishment is given to the violators of the social laws or because the advantages of denying rights outweigh the costs, how do we break this cycle of injustice on the part of males?

D. What programmes and policies will make males liberal and just?

  1. CBDA

  2. ABCD

  3. ADCB

  4. CDBA
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A is the most likely concluding sequence as it answers all the questions in this para jumble. This narrows down our approach to either (1) or (2). 'These interests' in B is a direct link to C, thus, we have CB link. Hence, (1) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, five 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. A variety of measures will have to be introduced to put the family planning campaign back on its feet.

B. For this, the programme has to look inwards and treat itself as a development input in its own right.

C. In fact, development is the best method of controlling population growth, though the reverse is also true that high population growth is a sure recipe for slow, if not negative development.

D. Family planning needs to be salvaged from the morass into which it has drifted.

E. Legal measures may help, but what is urgently required is social awareness and involvement to create responsible parenthood.

  1. DBCAE

  2. ABDCE

  3. DECAB

  4. AEDCB
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Out of D and A, D initiates the sequence as it introduces the subject 'Family planning needs to be salvaged'. 'For this' in B refers to the subject in D, thus, we have DB link. Similarly, 'Legal measures' in E refers to 'variety of measures' in A, thus, E follows A. This sequence is found in (1), which is the answer.

Multiple choice
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 'high' satisfaction implies being happy with the performance of both the worker's and home-maker's roles, 'moderate' satisfaction implies marginal imbalance in the equilibrium of the two roles (one coming in the way of other) and 'low' satisfaction implies being dissatisfied with one or both roles to a very large extent.
B. In Deepa Mathur's study, 53 per cent women were found to be highly satisfied (with their dual roles), 18 per cent moderately satisfied, and 29 per cent dissatisfied.
C. How many women remain satisfied with the dual roles?
D. If an earning woman attempts and succeeds in merging her working role with the general roles of mother and wife, she will be considered as a woman who is satisfied with her dual roles.

  1. CDAB

  2. ACDB

  3. BDCA

  4. CADB
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Question in C begins the sequence as it introduces the subject - 'women satisfaction with the dual roles'. D gives the answer to the question in C, which is further explained by sentence A, supported by figures in B. Thus, (1) is the answer.

Multiple choice
Directions: In the following question, five 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. But no matter who took possession of the sheet after the Resurrection, it was most probably then preserved by followers of Jesus, the most likely candidates being Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus who had arranged for the body to be removed from the Cross and placed in the tomb.
B. The 'servant of the priests' was most probably given the priceless gift as a token of gratitude for some special service rendered.
C. But the cloth could not be allowed to remain in Palestine: the continual and vicious infighting with the forces of the hated Roman overlords presented too much of a threat.
D. According to the apocryphal Gospel of the Hebrews, which was used by the Nazarenes, Jesus gave the shroud described in the Gospels to the 'servant of the priests' after the Resurrection.
E. It is logical to assume that the recipient of so marked a favour was not one of the mortal enemies of Jesus.

  1. DEBAC

  2. BECAD

  3. DACBE

  4. BCEDA
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

D begins the sequence as it introduces the subject - shroud given to 'servant of priests' after the Resurrection. E follows D as 'assumption' in E is a reference to D. BA link is apparent as A elaborates B further by providing a contrary view. Hence, (1) is the answer.

Multiple choice
Directions: In the following question, five 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. One example of this is the complete absence of contemporarily written records or descriptions even of Alexander the Great's imposing military incursion into India.
B. If Jesus really did live in Kashmir for a considerable length of time - if, in other words, tradition is right in averring that he eventually died in Srinagar when he was over 80 years old.
C. Specialists in Indian history are agreed that there was no systematic written history in India before the spread of Islam.
D. The trouble is, writers in India in those ancient days refused to allow foreign influences to impinge upon their own culture, even in referring to historical events.
E. It should be possible to find some evidence in ancient Indian literature of how he spent the last thirty to forty years of his life.

  1. DAECB

  2. DEBCA

  3. BEDAC

  4. CDAEB

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

B begins the sequence as it highlights the thought discussed in this para jumble - 'Jesus in Kashmir'. B is followed by E as 'he' in E refers to 'Jesus' in B. As D points out the trouble, thus, it follows E, which in turn is followed by A as it provides an example to support the view in D. Hence, (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice
Directions: In the following question, five 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. An Indian professor (Amartya Sen, now settled in the USA and working in Harvard University) in a prestigious JRD Tata Memorial lecture in Delhi in August 1995 on 'Population Stabilization Programme' favoured 'cooperation' approach and denounced the use of coercion to bring down the lines of two famous theories of Condorcet (of France) and Malthus (of Britain).
B. Condorcet believed that female education would lead people to choose voluntarily smaller families and lower fertility rates.
C. An important question has now been raised by some thinkers pertaining to population policy - that of cooperation vs coercion, or incentives vs disincentives, or Kerala model vs Chinese model?
D. There are some thinkers who support cooperation while there are others who support coercion.
E. He supported Condorcet's approach to the problem of population which talked of the emergence of new norms of small family size based on 'the progress of reason'.

  1. CADBE

  2. ADBEC

  3. CDAEB

  4. BAECD
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

As the thought of this para jumble is expressed in C, therefore, C initiates the sequence. This narrows down our approach to 2 options, either (1) or (2). 'He' in E refers to 'Indian professor' in A, thus, we have AE link. Statement B explains the Condorcet's view, thus, it follows AE. Hence, (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Statements 1, 2 and 3 proffer reasons for deeper study of higher or civilised languages. 'Such reasons' in 2 indicates its position after 1. However, 4 has to follow 2. 5 is logically a starting statement followed by 3, which elaborates on the statement in 5. Hence, 53124.

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Statements 1, 2 and 3 proffer reasons for deeper study of higher or civilised languages. 'Such reasons' in 2 indicates its position after 1. However, 4 has to follow 2. 5 is logically a starting statement followed by 3, which elaborates on the statement in 5. Hence, 53124.

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Statements 1, 2 and 3 proffer reasons for deeper study of higher or civilized languages. 'Such reasons' in 2 indicates its position after 1. However, 4 has to follow 2. 5 is logically a starting statement followed by 3, which elaborates the statement in 5. Hence, 53124.

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Statements 1, 2 and 3 proffer reasons for deeper study of higher or civilized languages. 'Such reasons' in 2 indicates its position after 1. However, 4 has to follow 2. 5 is logically a starting statement followed by 3, which elaborates statement 5. Hence, 53124. 

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

‘In either case’ in (3) refers to ‘acceleration or retardation’ in (1). (5) illustrates the law of falling bodies referred to in (3). ‘The ultimate physical atom’ is introduced in (2) and continued in (4).Hence, the correct order of the sentences is 13524.

Multiple choice

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'Now time and space’ in (5) should follow ‘time and space’ in (1). ‘Time within space’ in (3) should follow (5). ‘If’ in (2) refers to ‘architecture’ in (4).

Answer: 15342