Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Paragraph Jumbles, Exercise 4: Exercise

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Could you think of a world without time?
(B) It all sounds too good to be true, or even practical for that matter, does it not?
(C) To be able to play on endlessly without being told that it was time to go home...
(D) For a world without time would probably be a totally chaotic place to live in, where everything happened all at once a kind of topsy-turvy land!
(E) Imagine what it would be like not to have to tumble out of bed to the shrill buzz of the morning alarm and to hurry to catch the school bus!

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) It covers $1,86,000$ miles per second.
(B) This means you would zoom more than seven times around the world in one second!
(C) Light travels at an enormous speed, faster than anything else we know.
(D) The distance will be about $58,80,000,000,000$ miles. This distance is called a light-year.
(E) It has a speed more than $5,00,000$ times faster than the Concorde. Now calculate how far the light will travel in a year.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Small distances, such as the length and breadth of this book, are measured in centimetres or inches.
(B) Even millions or billions of miles would not be enough to express these immense distances. We need an altogether different unit for measuring them.
(C) However, sizes and distance in the universe are too vast to be measured in terms of any of these units.
(D) Bigger distances are measured in meters or feet, while still bigger distances are measured in terms of any of these units.
(E) The stars of our galaxy whirl together in space in a gigantic spiral, so vast that ordinary words for describing hugeness just cannot describe this.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) In ancient times the man had a very simple picture of the universe.
(B) He believed that the sun, moon, stars, and planets were small objects that moved around the earth.
(C) The universe was taken to be a great dome overhead having glittering lights.
(D) Below, in the center of all creation, lay the vast, flat, immovable earth, around which everything else moved.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Then the earth turned green and joyful, the birds sang and flowers bloomed. And then came the blazing, hot summer when the earth became parched and dry, and everything dried up.
(B) The cold, windy winter when man huddled before a fire to keep himself warm was followed by spring.
(C) The monsoons provided some solace from the heat. And leaves fell off the trees in autumn before winter came once again.
(D) This cycle of seasons covered about $365$ days or a whole year.
(E) It is likely that the change in seasons gave birth to the idea of the year.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) At night it disappears altogether from our sight.
(B) It is we who have moved!
(C) Just as it appeared to our ancestors, the sun seems to us to rise in the east and journey across the vast archway of the sky before setting in the west.
(D) This movement does not actually happen but appears to do so.
(E) The sun at night is in exactly the same place as it was during the day.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) The shadow clock was a clever invention, although not a very accurate timekeeper.
(B) It was a fairly simple device, consisting of a straight base placed in an east to west direction, on which stood a crosspiece.
(C) This crosspiece was placed at the east end of the base in the morning and shifted to the west end in the afternoon.
(D) As the sun's rays fell on the crosspiece, it cast its shadow on the base.
(E) This was marked by a scale of six-time divisions, so intervals of time could be measured.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) If the water level fell to the next mark, it showed that the clock had run for two hours.
(B) In this way, as marks were exposed, the time could be read.
(C) To start the clock, the vessel was filled to the brim with water. As the water ran out through the hole in the bottom, the level of water in the vessel kept falling.
(D) The water clock was actually a basin-shaped, stone vessel with a small hole at the bottom. Its inner walls were marked with divisions to show the hours, so the 'clock' was easy to read.
(E) When the water level dropped to the first mark on the walls, it indicated that the clock had been running for one hour.