
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) A contemporary example of organized anti- clericalism is the movement in the US to prevent religious fundamentalists winning the right to practice religious activities in state schools.
(B) In the 20th century, political cleavages between clericalists and anti-clericalists shaped electoral support for parties, especially in Italy and France.
(C) Anti-clericalist movements range from having particularistic objectives (for example, getting rid of Jesuits) to general opposition to all types of clerical power (for instance, atheist campaigns in USSR in the 1930s).
(D) Anti-clericalism is a liberal or socialist doctrine of opposition to the political authority, power and status of the clergy.
(E) In Europe, the Catholic clergy were the special target of the currents of anti-clericalism which flourished in the post-Enlightenment era and influenced many European nationalist movements, Including the French, Spanish Italian and Irish revolutionary nationalist movements of the mid 19th century.


Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Anxiety (Greek, 'racking'), that is distress of mind, disquietude and uneasiness, is not generally regarded in psychology as an irrational fear—a suggestion that may come from such common phrases as 'Anxiety was driving him out of his mind'.
(B) Anxiety does not have a clear source, unlike a phobia, but can be traced to unconscious processes in psychoanalysis and to faulty responses and thinking (cognitive therapy).
(C) Psychoanalysis has focused on the unconscious sources of anxiety.
(D) Originally, it saw anxiety as the outcome of repressed libido. (E) Freud also thought at one time that anxiety was the result of an unconscious memory of the birth trauma.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Apocalyptic writers in general, however, are more concerned with the sequence of dire events, the crumbling of civilization, which precedes that end.
(B) The root thought that gave rise to apocalyptic literature was the Judaeo-Chiristian idea that human life, indeed the life of the universe, is not random, but an ordered progression from the Beginning through to the End.
(C) Some apocalyptic writers, for example William Blake, were particularly concerned with the End, and developed images, ideas and language directly from Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, which details the final days of the world
(D) Once such broadening of the idea is allowed, a huge range of writers can be described as apocalyptic, from Swift to George Orwell, from Zola to Wyndham Lewis. Critics have suggested that the apocalyptic imagination is a particular characteristic of 20th century writing, both directly in sf (where writers such as J.G. Ballard, Harry Harrison and George Turner regularly depict the horrors of a future in which present day problem the greenhouse effect, over-population, too many cars-are multiplied in geometric progression towards oblivion), or in writers who have used sf ideas and techniques in a wider context, such as John Barth, Alasdair Gray, Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut.
E) Dystopian writing of this kind sees the human race as doomed (usually self-doomed). We are trapped like animals, laboratory specimens at the mercy of irresponsible powers; we are too prolific; we are plundering the planet.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) This abstraction is then manipulated mathematically, possibly with other assumptions thrown in (for example, Newton assumed that the attraction between the planets varied according to the inverse of the square of the distance between them), to find a mathematical way of describing this data (in Newton's case, that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun), which can then be verified by further experimentation (which in this example, had already been done a century before by Kepler).
(B) The whole of physics and much of many other sciences depends on this procedure.
(C) Mathematics began with the abstraction of properties from the real world around us; it proves its usefulness when the results obtained from this abstraction are turned back again to the real world.
(D) This is how science works, scientists abstract the properties they wish to study from experimental evidence (for example, the observations of planetary motion over many years were used to find the positions of the planets).
(E) Applicability is the real strength of mathematics: its relationship to the scientific method is due the fact that it is so successful in explaining the real world.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Factions of the Ba'athist Party have held power in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and in Syria, under President Assad. Their dictatorships have not led to Pan-Arabist unity, but rather the converse.
(B) The Arab league was formed in 1945 with the aspiration to create eventual unity, but it has remained committed only to the moderate goals of inter-governmental co-operation.
(C) A short-lived United Arabic Republic (1958– 61) of Syria and Egypt created temporary optimism that a broader pan-Arabic ideal could be achieved.
(D) Pan Arabism seeks a unified state embracing all Arabic speaking peoples.
(E) Like the Pan Africanist movement was divided between proponents of inter-governmental economic and political co-operation between sovereign Arab states (for example Lebanon), and advocates of the merger of existing Arab states into a single state (such as Syria).

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) He discovered that images occur which are not always part of our own history or personal experience.
(B) He also discovered that these elements, which seemed to be inherited from somewhere else, had a tendency to organize themselves into predetermined patterns or symbols; these he called archetypes.
(C) Freud's analysis of dreams had come up with similar anomalies which he called "archaic past and biological development, a part of our mind that is close to animals.
(D) Archetypes (Greek, originals') were discovered by Jung through the analysis of dreams.
(E) Each of us, in this sense, has an extremely old psyche, a deposit of collective images and primitive motifs.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Art Deco design was an amalgam of the changes affecting fine art and design in the interwar years, for example, the bold colours of Fauve and Cubist painting and the architecture of modernism.
(B) Populist application of the new Modernism influenced design across the board from cinemas to radios and vacuum cleaners.
(C) Art Deco (derived from the phrase 'art as decoration) was a design style universally popular from the late 1920s onwards.
(D) It also led to several important critics and designers criticising Art Deco as a mere style without the intellectual rigor of hard-line Modern Movement thinking. In this context, the term Moderene was used to suggest the Art Deco style as a much less serious version of Modernism.
(E) It was characterised by geometric forms, distinctive colour combinations, modern materials like stainless steel and in furniture, smooth wraparound surfaces in luxurious veneers.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) This kind of question is not really answerable in the present state of philosophy and psychology.
(B) For example, it is not possible to answer the question 'Do computers have knowledge of the data they process?' unless you can define the term knowledge. (This question also has consequences in the legal field-can a computer be allowed as a witness in court if it does not really know what it is talking about?).
(C) Thanks to our limited understanding of human thought, it is quite difficult to define what the goal of artificial intelligence actually is.
(D) It is an area in which much research has been done since the end of World War II, beginning with the theoretical work of Alan Turing () in the s.
(E) Artificial Intelligence is the most controversial area of computing today, an area beloved of authors- the duplications of human thought patterns by computers.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Essentially, they are communities that grow up around a religious figure.
(B) The Upanishad tradition of sages going to the forest to mediate resulted in communities of disciples and devotees settling around their hut, following their teacher's guidance.
(C) Probably the most famous in modern times are Rabindranath Tagore's community at Shantiniketan, West Bengal, where he conducted his educational and cultural experiments (and which is now recognized as a university, although originally, it was closer to deschooling, non-formal education and art workshops), and Gandhi's ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati near Ahmedabad, which was a springboard for his independence campaign.
(D) Ashrams are quite different from Buddhist or western-Christian monasteries.
