Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) It's that rare state when it seems you can do no wrong.
(B) You know the feeling.
(C) Maybe you're playing tennis and every shot is landing right where you aim it.
(D) Or perhaps solutions to those gnarly work problems are coming to you so easily that you wonder why they seemed insurmountable before.
(E) Why is it that sometimes you fire on all cylinders and at other times you can't even start the engine?
(F) For most of us, these moments of vision and high performance are too rare.
(G) The answer may be this: You're at your best when you get your mind out of the way.
(B) You know the feeling.
(C) Maybe you're playing tennis and every shot is landing right where you aim it.
(D) Or perhaps solutions to those gnarly work problems are coming to you so easily that you wonder why they seemed insurmountable before.
(E) Why is it that sometimes you fire on all cylinders and at other times you can't even start the engine?
(F) For most of us, these moments of vision and high performance are too rare.
(G) The answer may be this: You're at your best when you get your mind out of the way.
Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Every bit of his well-muscled arms is covered with tattoos.
(B) Today Kent Lindahl is the father of two children, has finished college, and is working towards a degree in psychotherapy.
(C) Yet fragments of his past will always haunt him.
(D) With his intelligent eyes, neatly trimmed beard and wire-rimmed glasses, Lindahl looks like a professor until he rolls up his sleeves.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Amberry teaches professional basketball players how to shoot free throws and has produced an instructional book and video.
(B) The key, he says, is to become mentally absorbed in a physical routine, which clears the head of negative ideas, such as missing the shot.
(C) "You can't have an extraneous thought in your mind when you make that free throw," says Amberry.
(D) Refocusing the mind to eliminate the buzz and the static of everyday thought, according to a new book by Dr Herbert Benson, has powers beyond the basketball court.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) So she took her dog, Elsie Mae, for a stroll on the beach near her home in California.
(B) Of course, some people seem to know intuitively that the best way to cope with a problem can be to walk away from it.
(C) Artist and graphic designer Lisa Gizara, , was struggling to come up with a fresh advertising idea for one of her clients, a computer company.
(D) She took a few more steps and saw an image: Michelangelo's "Creations of Adam," which features the famous detail of God's and Adam's fingers nearly touching.
(E) As they tromped across the sand, suddenly a phrase popped into Gizara's head: "Get connected."
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Benson believes that when you "break the train of everyday thought"- a phrase he repeats like a mantra-your body increases the production of a gas molecule called nitric oxide (not to be confused with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas).
(B) Scientists once thought nitric oxide, or NO, was merely a toxin.
(C) It's a component of cigarette smoke, for example.
(D) But in the late s, researchers learned that gas is made in the human body and plays a role in a range of physiological processes, such as controlling blood pressure.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Many of his colleagues told him he was wasting his time and would ruin his career.
(B) But Benson went on to become a pioneer in the now-nourishing field known as mind-body medicine, which explores how our thoughts and feelings contribute to disease.
(C) Benson has grown accustomed to skepticism about his work.
(D) Trained as a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, Benson began in the s to study how stress affects physical well being, then considered a radical idea.
Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) To the soundtrack of cicadas and the wind in the leaves, Abrams repeated the motions, over and over, until her brain and body went on autopilot.
(B) "It's a very Zen kind of thing."
(C) She would sit in the night air for hours, slowly rocking the treadle of a spinning wheel with her feet and guiding the fibers with sweeping motions of her arm.
(D) Consider Charlene Abrams, who spent every free evening in the summer of on the front step of her home, spinning yarn.
(E) "You get into this almost altered state," says Abrams, , a software engineer.
(F) "Sitting there spinning, my mind wanders and goes wherever it needs to go."
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) And then suppose you pushed the 'Reverse button and took a trip in the opposite direction-journeying into the dim recesses of the past.
(B) Just suppose you could clamber aboard a Time Machine and press the 'Forward' button.
(C) You might just land right into your favourite period of history.
(D) Z..a.Ap.. Would you hurtle forward through a blinding flash of days and nights, months and years—even long centuries-perhaps, to land into an alien world of the future...?
(E) A world that will be a marvel of technology.
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!
