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- The test is designed to check your current understanding of the language and whether you are able to logically co-relate different parts of a paragraph.
- Directions for individual questions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Para Jumbles:Test-16
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Question 1 |
1. A few years ago hostility towards Japanese-Americans was so strong that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in Kolkata.
A. Today Asians are a success story.
B. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when jewish people were successful in business.
C. But do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia?
D. Now, talk about the ‘Arknsas-Asia Connection’ is broadening that hatred to include all Asian-Americans.
6. No, blinded by jealous, they complain that it is the Asian-American who are reaping the wealth.
A. Today Asians are a success story.
B. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when jewish people were successful in business.
C. But do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia?
D. Now, talk about the ‘Arknsas-Asia Connection’ is broadening that hatred to include all Asian-Americans.
6. No, blinded by jealous, they complain that it is the Asian-American who are reaping the wealth.
DBAC | |
ABDC | |
DABC | |
ACBD |
Question 1 Explanation:
Option A forms the opening sentence as it tells about the present circumstances.
Option B makes a comparison of asians with anti-jewish.
Option D comes next as it takes the discussion to the level.
Option C should come next to option D as it is a question and its answer is given in point 6 given in the question itself as closing sentence.
Option B makes a comparison of asians with anti-jewish.
Option D comes next as it takes the discussion to the level.
Option C should come next to option D as it is a question and its answer is given in point 6 given in the question itself as closing sentence.
Question 2 |
1. Michael Jackson, clearly no admirer of long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years.
A. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
B. It is also the second marriage for the new missus about whom little is known.
C. The wedding was attended by the groom’s entourage and staff, according to Jackson’s publicist.
D. The bride, 37-years old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson’s baby, wore white.
6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for Jackson’s dermatologist.
A. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
B. It is also the second marriage for the new missus about whom little is known.
C. The wedding was attended by the groom’s entourage and staff, according to Jackson’s publicist.
D. The bride, 37-years old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson’s baby, wore white.
6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for Jackson’s dermatologist.
ACDB | |
BDCA | |
DABC | |
CDBA |
Question 2 Explanation:
Option A comes first , it tells about where the latest wedding took place which is in continuation to the given opening sentence.
Option C comes next, it gives information about who all attended the wedding.
Option D tells about the bride and option B gives more information about the bride which is continued in closing sentence.
Option C comes next, it gives information about who all attended the wedding.
Option D tells about the bride and option B gives more information about the bride which is continued in closing sentence.
Question 3 |
1. Liz Taylor isn’t just unlucky in love.
A. She, and her husband Larry Fortensky, will have to pay the tab -- $4,32,600 in court costs.
B. The duo claimed that a 1993 story about a property dispute damaged their reputations.
C. Taylor has just filed a defamation suit against the National Enquirer.
D. She is unlucky in law too.
6. Alas, all levels of the California court system disagreed.
A. She, and her husband Larry Fortensky, will have to pay the tab -- $4,32,600 in court costs.
B. The duo claimed that a 1993 story about a property dispute damaged their reputations.
C. Taylor has just filed a defamation suit against the National Enquirer.
D. She is unlucky in law too.
6. Alas, all levels of the California court system disagreed.
CDAB | |
DCAB | |
DABC | |
CDBA |
Question 3 Explanation:
Option D continues with opening sentence, so it comes first.
Option C comes next as the rest of the options discuss about this option only.
Option A comes next which tells what all will be paid and
option B tells what claims did they took which is followed by closing sentence which is in sink with this option.
Option C comes next as the rest of the options discuss about this option only.
Option A comes next which tells what all will be paid and
option B tells what claims did they took which is followed by closing sentence which is in sink with this option.
Question 4 |
1. Hiss was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938.
B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials.
C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers.
D. He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1030s was Hiss.
6. Then, bizzarely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.
A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938.
B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials.
C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers.
D. He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1030s was Hiss.
6. Then, bizzarely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.
CBAD | |
ADBC | |
ADCB | |
ACDB |
Question 4 Explanation:
Option A comes first as it continues with opening sentence
next comes option D which tells about what chambers did.
Next option C which continues the story after option D.
Option B should come last as it tells about a meeting about the happenings of which is told in closing sentence.
next comes option D which tells about what chambers did.
Next option C which continues the story after option D.
Option B should come last as it tells about a meeting about the happenings of which is told in closing sentence.
Question 5 |
1. Since its birth, rock has produced a long string of guitar heroes.
A. It is a list that would begin with Chuck Berry and continue with Hendrix, Page and Clapton.
B. These are musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, and their flair for expansive, showy and sometimes self-indulgent solos.
C. It would also include players of more recent vintage, like Van-Halen and Living Colour’s Vemon Ried.
D. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge, guitar heroism became uncool.
6. Guitarists like Peter Buck and Kurt Cobain shy away from exhibitionism.
A. It is a list that would begin with Chuck Berry and continue with Hendrix, Page and Clapton.
B. These are musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, and their flair for expansive, showy and sometimes self-indulgent solos.
C. It would also include players of more recent vintage, like Van-Halen and Living Colour’s Vemon Ried.
D. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge, guitar heroism became uncool.
6. Guitarists like Peter Buck and Kurt Cobain shy away from exhibitionism.
ACBD | |
ABCD | |
BCAD | |
BADC |
Question 5 Explanation:
Option A should come first as it gives the names of various guitar heroes talked about in opening sentence.
Option C comes next which continues with option A.
Option B tells about the kind of musicians they are which are mentioned in options A and C.
Option D tells about what made guitar uncool which is continued in closing sentence.
Option C comes next which continues with option A.
Option B tells about the kind of musicians they are which are mentioned in options A and C.
Option D tells about what made guitar uncool which is continued in closing sentence.
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