Parajumbles

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: When Lee reached the Potomac with his defeated army, he found a swollen, impassable river in front of him, and a victorious Union Army behind him.
Q: Lee was in a trap. He couldn't escape.
R: During the night of July 4, Lee began to retreat southward while storm clouds deluged the country with rain.
S: The Battle of Gettysburg was fought during the first three days of July 1863.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: A cheap reproduction of Rosa Bonheur's famous painting The Horse Fair hung above the bed, and a dismal gas jet flickered yellow light.
Q: Lincoln's long body lay stretched diagonally across a sagging bed that was too short for him. 
R: On the morning of April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln lay dying in a hall bedroom of a cheap lodging house directly across the street from Ford's Theater, where John Wilkes Booth had shot him. 
S: As Lincoln lay dying, Secretary of War Stanton said, "There lies the most perfect ruler of men that the world has ever seen." 
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The contract for Apollo was awarded to North American Aviation, which had experience building unmanned space vehicles.
Q: The construction of the Apollo capsules had been controversial within NASA.
R: Engineers at North American clashed repeatedly with NASA astronauts. Some at NASA feared corners were being cut.
S: The contractor for the Gemini capsules, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, had performed well, but couldn't handle the workload to also build the Apollo capsules.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The original purpose of the marathon mission was to monitor the health of the astronauts during an extended stay in space.
Q: The altered plans that would eventually send Apollo 8 to the moon were foreshadowed three years earlier, when two Gemini capsules met in space.
R: Two of the three men who would fly to the moon aboard Apollo 8, Frank Borman and James Lovell, comprised the crew of Gemini 7 on that noteworthy flight. In December 1965, the two men went into Earth orbit on a daunting mission intended to last nearly 14 days.
S: The story of Apollo 8 is rooted in NASA's early culture of racing to the moon and being willing to improvise when necessary. Whenever careful planning became disrupted, a sense of daring came into play.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: As a college student, she studied a number of subjects, falling in love with astronomy during her years at what later became Radcliffe College.
Q: Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1869, in Massachusetts to George Roswell Leavitt and Henrietta Swan.
R: Little is known about her private life.
S: She spent some years traveling around the world before settling back in the Boston area to pursue further studies and work in astronomy.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: All dumbo octopuses have the characteristic umbrella shape caused by webbing between their tentacles and all have ear-like fins they flap to propel themselves through the water.
Q: While the flapping fins are used for propulsion, the tentacles act as a rudder to control the swimming direction and are how the octopus crawls along the seafloor.
R: There are distinctions between the dumbo octopus species, but all are bathypelagic animals found on or near the deep ocean floor.
S: There are 13 species of dumbo octopuses. The animals are members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, which in turn is a subset of the family Opisthoteuthidae, the umbrella octopuses.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: It's difficult to explore the depths because they are eternally dark, extremely cold (between 0 degrees C and 3 degrees C below 3,000 meters), and under high pressure (15750 psi or over 1,000 times higher than standard atmospheric pressure at sea level).
Q: From the time of Pliny until the end of the 19th century, people believed the deep sea was a lifeless wasteland.
R: Modern scientists recognize the deep sea as the largest habitat on the planet.
S: Special tools have been developed to explore this cold, dark, pressurized environment.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: “We’re not living in the final phase of the pandemic, but still at the beginning,” Merkel warned.
Q: German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised some German states for moving too briskly in trying to reopen their economies.
R: “It would be a shame if premature hope ultimately punishes us all.”
S: Germany has been praised for its approach to the pandemic and has a much lower reported death toll than other large European countries.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The lockdown has badly affected the service sector, particularly travel, hospitality, and wholesale and retail trade.
Q: These crippling blows have come close on the heels of the worst economic slowdown experienced by the country in the recent past.
R: Almost every sector was badly affected. The manufacturing sector had seen a drastic drop in production due to a steep fall in consumption.
S: The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed will undoubtedly be disastrous.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: People moved and many still want to move because they have experienced and inherited memories of hunger.
Q: The Chinese New Year is the largest annual human migration, but was curtailed or stopped in some instances by Beijing as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19.
R: The Centre now has the dubious achievement of causing the largest human migration in post-Partition memory.
S: And having seen the insensitivities of the “state”, they also don’t want a lonely uncared death.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: We have had reports of stranded migrant workers not getting enough cooked food or dry rations.
Q: But these are largely stories of localised administrative neglect, and not comparable to the general lack of access to food seen in past catastrophes.
R: Yet, they haven’t produced the severe food deprivation, soaring prices and hoarding that defined the previous great calamities.
S: The novel coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have had a far wider, nationwide impact.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: About three million people perished in the Great Bengal Famine of 1943.
Q: Maharashtra’s drought of 1972-73 caused an estimated 1,33,000-plus “excess deaths”.

R: The 1966-67 Bihar famine led to the state’s daily per capita calorie intake dropping from 2,200 to nearly 1,200 in several regions.
S: COVID-19 may go down as India’s first ever natural disaster not to register widespread starvation in terms of a total collapse in food consumption levels.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: Only one governor, West Virginia’s Jim Justice, appears to be mandating testing for all nursing homes without conditions.
Q: Massachusetts abruptly halted a program to send test kits directly to nursing homes this week after 4,000 of them turned out to be faulty. New Hampshire teamed with an urgent-care company to test care workers.
R: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan ordered tests at all 26 nursing in the city, using new kits that can spew out results in 15 minutes.
S: Several states including Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee and Wisconsin have dispatched National Guard testing strike teams.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: After two months and more than 11,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents.
Q: Neither the federal government nor the leader in nursing home deaths, New York, has mandated testing for all residents and staff.

R: An industry group says only about a third of the 15,000 nursing homes in the US have ready access to tests that can help isolate the sick and stop the spread.
S: And homes that do manage to get a hold of tests often rely on luck and contacts.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: As Africa braces for a surge in coronavirus cases, its countries are dangerously behind in the global race for scarce medical equipment.
Q: Ten nations have no ventilators at all.
R: Outbid by richer countries, and not receiving medical gear from top aid donor the United States, African officials scramble for solutions as virus cases climb past 25,000.
S: Even in the best scenario, the United Nations says 74 million test kits and 30,000 ventilators will be needed by the continent’s 1.3 billion people this year.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: VITAL is designed to treat patients with milder symptoms, thereby keeping country’s limited supply of traditional ventilators available for patients with more severe COVID-19 symptoms, it said.
Q: The device, called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), passed a critical test this week at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York, an epicentre of COVID-19 in the US, NASA said.

R: “We specialise in spacecraft, not medical-device manufacturing,” said Michael Watkins, Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
S: NASA engineers have developed a new, easy-to-build high-pressure ventilator tailored specifically to treat COVID-19 patients.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The numbers may be even higher, however, due to Thursday’s revelations.

Q: According to government data, most were mice, followed by 255,000 rats, 240,000 fish, 3,500 monkeys, 3,300 dogs and 718 cats.
R: Animals bred for research are usually culled because they do not possess the required characteristics the scientists are looking for.
S: 2017 saw the highest number of animals ever bred for research in Germany.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The SC directed that the High Court may take up the government’s petition as early as possible and dispose it off on Friday. Justice B L Hansaria of the High Court had passed the stay order on April 7.
Q: The Supreme Court decided not to interfere with the Gauhati High Court order staying the operation of the two notifications by the Assam governor.
R: The government was given 10 days to file its reply. Instead, it has directly approached the SC.
S: The central government had requested special leave to appeal against the High Court order in view of the “disturbed” conditions in the state.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: The lockdown has badly affected the service sector, particularly travel, hospitality, and wholesale and retail trade.
Q: These crippling blows have come close on the heels of the worst economic slowdown experienced by the country in the recent past.
R: Almost every sector was badly affected. The manufacturing sector had seen a drastic drop in production due to a steep fall in consumption.
S: The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed will undoubtedly be disastrous.
 

The question given below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P: People moved and many still want to move because they have experienced and inherited memories of hunger.
Q: The Chinese New Year is the largest annual human migration, but was curtailed or stopped in some instances by Beijing as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19.
R: The Centre now has the dubious achievement of causing the largest human migration in post-Partition memory.
S: And having seen the insensitivities of the “state”, they also don’t want a lonely uncared death.