English Language

Para Jumbles

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All Sentence parts within one sentence 753 Fixed opening or closing anchor 352 Whole sentences into a paragraph 271 Single position asked 157 Odd sentence out 4

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. Happiness implies the notion of stability, of enduring contentment, of peace of mind, while our pleasures, joys, and amusements are essentially ephemeral. B. If the word 'happiness' is used in its broadest sense as signifying all that pleases man not in a transitory but a lasting manner, then it is hard to find fault with the assertion that man's highest good is happiness. C. Happiness being the natural end of man, the only rational ethics for human beings consists in finding out the conditions of our happiness and in striving to bring them into being. D. Having made this distinction, it must be admitted that the majority of men sacrifice their true happiness in the pursuit of passing pleasures.

  1. ACBD

  2. CADB

  3. BADC

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

This para jumble takes about happiness - the essential aim of ethics. Out of A, B and C, B starts the paragraph as it introduces the concept and A further explains B. Looking carefully at C and D, C forms the concluding statement as it sums up the thought of this para jumble. Only option that satisfies this is (3).

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. To the extent that I appeal to it more and more, I find that my reason constitutes the most reliable guide to conduct which I possess. B. The faculty of making a choice between two ideas, that is my reason, often finds itself opposed to what my instincts and feelings dictate. C. Thus, I conclude that, in the future, it will be to my reason that I will submit all my thoughts, beliefs, and projects. D. Although my reason is not infallible, in the long run, I find that it very often enables me to avoid the errors into which my feelings would lead me.

  1. ABDC

  2. DBAC

  3. ADBC

  4. BDAC
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This para jumble underlines the influence of reason on our conscience. Looking at all the options carefully, B forms the beginning statement. As D is an explanation to B, so B à D. Out of A and C, only C could be a concluding statement as it sums up the thought of the para jumble. Hence, (4) is the correct option.

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. Therefore, the world has had no need of being created. B. There exists, therefore, a substratum consisting of matter or energy which is indestructible, and which has existed from all eternity.
C. We have no instance demonstrating that something can be created from nothing, and furthermore, we cannot even imagine how that could occur. D. Our experiences show us that in the material world nothing is created without somethings giving birth to it, and that nothing is destroyed without giving birth to some other thing, whether matter or energy, in constant proportions.

  1. ABCD

  2. ADCB

  3. BACD

  4. DCBA
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This para jumble clearly states that the world had no need of being created. But that doesn't mean that A forms the beginning statement instead it is the concluding statement because of the word 'Therefore'. Only D starts the paragraph. Out of B and C, B explains C, so B is to follow C. Hence, the correct sequence is met in option (4).