Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Paragraph Jumbles, Exercise 11: CAT 1999

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are $1$ and $6$, and the four in between are labelled A,B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences $1$ to $6$.

$1$. The concept of a 'nation-state' assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.

(A) Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries, making a mockery of the concept.

(B) There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.

(C) Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across several states.

(D) This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere, a fiction.

$6$. However, the nation has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist ideologies.

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences $1$to $6$.

In the sciences, even questionable examples of research fraud are harshly punished.

(A) But no such mechanism exists in the humanities much of what humanities researchers call research does not lead to results that are replicable by other scholars.

(B) Given the importance of interpretation in historical and literary scholarship, humanities researchers are in a position where they can explain away deliberate and even systematic distortion.

(C) Mere suspicion is enough for funding to be cut off, publicity guarantees that careers can be effectively ended

(D) Forgeries, which take the form of practices in which the forger intersperses fake and real parts can be defended as mere mistakes or aberrant misreading.

$6$. Scientists fudging data have no such defences.

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are $1$ and $6$, and the four in between are labeled A,B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences $1$to $6$.

$1$. Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.

(A) Fine horses bespoke the nobility the party was supposed to despise.

(B) Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and pigs.

(C) Although a working horse was just about toler- able, the communists were right to be wary.

(D) Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party dogma.

$6$. 'A farmer's pride is his horse, his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,' went a Slovak saying.

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

(A) If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught, with another lash of the whip.

(B) The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.

(C) Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.

(D) This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivation of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse, starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.

(E) Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.

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

(A) This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world.

(B) Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of truth.

(C) But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older images drawn by hand; for one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention.

(D) The inventory started in 1839 and since then, just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems.

(E) In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.

 

A paragraph has been divided into some sentences. The sentences are jumbled up and labelled A, B, C, D and E. Rearrange the sentences to form a coherent paragraph and choose the most logical order from the given choices.

(A) To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.

(B) Nor is it confined to one social class; quite the contrary.

(C) It is by no means confined to "culture", narrowly understood as an acquaintance with the arts.

(D) Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children, the only reliable way of combating the social determinism that now condemns them.

(E) The breadth of that information is great, extending over the major domains of human activity from sports to science.

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

(A) Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.

(B) The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).

(C) A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.

(D) These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.

(E) A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.

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

(A) The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.

(B) An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.

(C) Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.

(D) The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.