A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) God has managed the amazing feat of being worshipped and invisible at the same time.
(B) Millions of people might describe him as a white bearded father figure sitting on a throne in the sky, but none could claim to be an eyewitness.
(C) Although it doesn't seem possible to offer a single fact about the Almighty that would hold up in a court of law, somehow the vast majority of people believe in God—as many as 96 percent, according to some polls.
(D) This reveals a huge gap between belief and what we call everyday reality.
(E) We need to heal this gap.
(B) Millions of people might describe him as a white bearded father figure sitting on a throne in the sky, but none could claim to be an eyewitness.
(C) Although it doesn't seem possible to offer a single fact about the Almighty that would hold up in a court of law, somehow the vast majority of people believe in God—as many as 96 percent, according to some polls.
(D) This reveals a huge gap between belief and what we call everyday reality.
(E) We need to heal this gap.
Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) This result was all the more astonishing when it was discovered that the person doing the praying didn't have to know the patient personally, or even know their names.
(B) Seriously ill patients in hospitals were divided into groups, some being prayed for, while others were not.
(C) A striking example that there is a reachable place beyond material reality, and that is prayer.
(D) In all cases, the best medical care was still given, yet it became evident that the prayed-for group seemed to recover better.
(E) Beginning more than twenty years ago, researchers devised experiments to try to verify whether prayer had any efficacy.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) A snail's neurons pick up signals from the outside worlds so slowly, for example, that events any faster than three seconds would not be perceived.
(B) In other words, if a snail was looking at an apple, and I quickly reached in and snatched it away, the snail would not be able to detect my hand.
(C) It would "see" the apple disappear before its very eyes.
(D) In the animal kingdom some nervous systems are much faster than ours and others much slower.
(E) In the same way, quantum flashes are millions of time too rapid for us to register, so our brains play a trick on us by "seeing” solid objects that are continuous in time and space, the same way that a movie seems continuous.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) A person is neither the product of just her environment nor just her genetic make up.
(B) Let me give an example.
(C) A child is born with a talent for music, which then gets nurtured through continuous training in a conducive atmosphere.
(D) The transactional model of child development helps to resolve the split between nature and nurture.
(E) Rather it is the complex interaction between the two that is key.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) At first, you think of it as just a matter of growing bigger.
(B) There is nothing in the world more fascinating than watching a child grow and develop.
(C) Then, as the infant begins to do things, you may think of it as “learning tricks".
(D) In some ways, the development of each child retraces the whole history of the human race, physically and spiritually, step by step.
(E) But, it's really more complicated and full of meaning than that.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) On the one hand, we can trivialise the word by applying it to virtually any human activity.
(B) On the other hand, we can ignore or reject the significance of the original meaning of the term and replace it with a technical definition, such as "conceptual analysis” or “the methodology of science”.
(C) Like all expressions, however it is subject to two kinds of distortion.
(D) The word 'philosophy' is of Greek origin and means literally, “love of or friendship for wisdom.”
(E) This simple linguistic fact shows us at once that philosophy is an intrinsic expression of human nature.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) Some books, nevertheless, offer “inside stuff" or “tricks” which they claim will enable you to beat the test.
(B) This is not to say that the CAT is “beatable”.
(C) Although the CAT is a difficult test, it is a very learnable test.
(D) You probably have already realized this.
(E) There is no bag of tricks that will show you how to master it overnight.
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) Its aim was to remove from dance, any external associations, so that the dancers could concentrate on pure movement and pure pattern.
(B) Abstract dance was the name of a specific style of ballet, devised in the 1920s and developed at the bahaus.
(C) Ballroom dancing, for example, is concerned with the pleasure of the movement and pattern making give to the dancers, and not with some external programme'.
(D) In the wider sense, a great deal of dance is 'abstract.'
A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
(A) In those countries where the ideals of liberty and equality have received the greatest devotion, and particularly in America, the political constitution has been framed with the precise object of making impossible too great a concentration of power.
(B) A philosophy that emphasizes the likeness of all men will be averse from recognizing those exceptional qualities in any individual which place him so clearly above his fellows that he may justly claim to lead and influence them.
(C) A different though related strand of thought is equalitarian.
(D) Further, when circumstances make it necessary for a particular individual to display qualities of leadership in a very high degree, his position is under constant and bitter attack on the score of dictatorship, and it is necessary for him to conceal his qualities, consciously, behind a façade of ordinariness'.
