Embibe Experts Solutions for Chapter: Jumbled Paragraph, Exercise 1: Exercise 1

Rearrange the following four sentences A, B, C and D in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph to answer the question given below them:

A. He used to go to his school and enjoyed studying and midday meals there.
B. Besides, they needed his help in odd jobs in the house as well as their fields.
C. Karma lived with his parents in a thatched small house in a silent corner of the village.
D. This all stopped as his parents could not afford to send him to school to impart further education to him.

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

Direction: In the question below, a passage consisting of six sentences is given. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning, as S1 and S6, respectively. The other four sentences of the passage have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S.
Find out the proper order of the four sentences.

S1: Hope springs eternally in the heart of man.

S6: This is the central idea of the poem.

P: but hope is everlasting

Q: love, friendship and youth perish

R: it is nursed by the glorious elements of nature

S: man derives hope from nature in his gallant struggle after some noble ideal

The proper sequence should be:

Direction: In the question given below, a passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order of the four sentences.

S1: Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were spending a weekend in a University town.

S6: It was clear that something very unusual happened.

P: one evening, they received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr Hilton Soames

Q: on that occasion, he was in a state of great agitation

R: they were staying in furnished rooms, close to the library

S: Mr Soames was a tall, thin man of a nervous and excitable nature

The proper sequence should be:

Direction: In the question below, a passage consisting of six sentences is given. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning, as S1 and S6, respectively. The other four sentences of the passage have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S.
Find out the proper order of the four sentences.

S1: The machines that drive modern civilisation derive their power from coal and oil.

S6: Nuclear energy may also be effectively used in this respect.

P: but they are not inexhaustible

Q: these sources may not be exhausted very soon

R: a time may come when some other sources have to be tapped and utilised

S: power may, of course, be obtained in the future from forests, water, wind and withered vegetables

The proper sequence should be:

Direction: In the question given below, a passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order of the four sentences.

S1: The body can never stop.

S6: It comes from food.

P: to support this endless activity, the body needs all the fuel for action

Q: sometimes, it is more active than at other times, but it is always moving

R: even in the deepest sleep, we must breathe

S: the fuel must come from somewhere

The proper sequence should be:

Direction: In the question below, a passage consisting of six sentences is given. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning, as S1 and S6, respectively. The other four sentences of the passage have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S.
Find out the proper order of the four sentences.

S1: American idealism is essentially a belief in the idea of progress.

S6: This sense they have inherited from the English.

P: therefore, they believe that, because of human effort, the future will be better than the past

Q: but if Americans are usually optimistic, they are not wholly unrealistic

R: the Americans tend to view history as a record of human achievement

S: they have some common sense of practicality

The proper sequence should be:

The following question, the first and the last parts of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R, S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and find out which of the four combinations is correct. Then find the correct answer.

Rearrange the following given sentences to make a meaningful paragraph and then choose the correct order from the options given below.

1. His penance grew harder, he abjured even fruit.

P. Then the water too, that the girl offered him in leaf-cups lay untouched.

Q. Birds pecked at them as they lay rotting at his feet.

R. She gathered wild blossoms and laid them humbly before him.

S. The girl mused in sorrow: Is there nothing left for me to do'.

6. The ascetic took no notice.

In the following question, the first and the last parts of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and arrange them in the proper order:

1. Camille, however, was not content to be a nurse.

P. She wanted an independent career.

Q. And there were fundamental differences of character.

R. They are less bombastic, more contained, more intimate.

S. She was never a servile copyist of Rodin, her works all have her own personal stamp.

6. Rodin at the bottom remained a man of the people, simple in taste, coarse-grained.