Questions for practice Jumbled paragraph | Learn English for competitive exams

Questions for practice Jumbled paragraph | Learn English for competitive exams

Jumbled paragraph with 5 sentences:

Jumbled paragraph with 5 sentences is a variation of a jumbled paragraph with 4 sentences. Here five sentences make a paragraph. Level of difficulty increases as more links and connectors need to be identified. However, the options help reach the answers faster by utilizing the solving key.

Example-

Arrange the sentences in the sequence to make a coherent paragraph.

1. However much of the wealth was lost during the exploitive British rule.
2. Despite the substantial progress, it still suffers from poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, and corruption.
3. India was identified with its commercial wealth for much of its long history.
4. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large-economy.
5. Since independence, India has been strengthening its economy once again.
6.  1. CAEDB     2. ABCDE       3.  DBCEA      4.  EABDC           5.  CEABD

Explanation – C should come first, A should follow because of the wealth link . the link which connects E-D-B is “economy”. Hence, the correct option is option 1.

Questions for practice –

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

Question 1 –

1. The two neighbours never fought each other.
2. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
3. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
4. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
5. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

1. BEDAC            2. DEBAC           3. BDCAE            4. BCEDA

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Question 2 –

1. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
2. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
3. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
4. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
5. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.

1. CAEDB         2. DBAEC         3. CEADB        4. ECDBA

Question3 –

1. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome
2. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
3. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.
4. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
5. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

1. EDACB            2. BEDAC          3. BDECA           4. CEDAB

Question 4-

1. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one day come to China or India.
2. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
3. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver a better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
4. That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a diesel hybrid.
5. Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30 %.

1. CEDBA          2. CEBDA              3. AEDBC            4. ACEBD

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Question 5-

1. But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians’ only preoccupation
2. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
3. Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
4. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves.
5. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.

1. CDBEA     2. ECDAB       3. EDCBA      4. DECAB

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Question 6-

1. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolizes the brutality of the upper classes.
2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes the government’s weakness.
3. To foxhunting’s supporters, Labour’s 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it symbolizes the party’s metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
4. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes, foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.

1. DEACB        2. ECDBA          3. CEADB       4. DBAEC

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Question 7–

1. In the case of King Merolchazzar’s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch.
2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess, dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
4. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
5. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.

1. ACBDE        2. ABCDE              3. ECDAB           4. ECBAD

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Question 8–

1. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David for Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar?
2. Similarly with men.
3. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that can only be compared with the age-old association of ham and eggs.
4. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
5. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.

1. ACBED          2. CEDBA              3. ACEBD             4. CEABD

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Answer key:

1. (1)
2. (2)
3. (2)
4. (1)
5. (3)
6. (1)
7. (3)
8. (2)

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