CET Para Jumbles Questions with Solutions – Page 4

Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
A. Whatever that energy source might be on Europa—far from the Sun and beneath kilometres of ice—it will not be sunlight.
B. The final ingredient for a habitable world is a source of energy for life to exploit.
C. On Earth, almost every living thing ultimately depends on photosynthesis, although communities around deep-sea vents offer an important exception.
D. The inhabitants of those vent communities do not benefit from sunlight directly; they rely on chemical sources of energy.
E. That lack of sunlight initially seems a problem when we compare Europa with our own planet.

Read the following statements, numbered as A, B, C, D, and E carefully, and determine which option is most logically chronologically ordered.
Statements:
A. The treaty tests of a budget deficit no bigger than 3% of the GDP and a public debt converging towards a ceiling of 60% of a GDP seemed impossible for Italy to pass by 1999.
B. That Belgium also had a public debt above 100 percent of GDP helped, as did a special euro tax Mr. Prodi introduced.
C. Into the uncompromising environment came the first of a series of external shocks. One of the earliest was entry into the European single currency, the euro, in 1999.
D. But when it became clear in 1997 that Spain was determined to join from the start, Romano Prodi, then Italian prime minister, decided that Italy, as a founder member of the bloc, must be there too.
E. Germany had more or less designed the 1992 Maastricht treaty’s convergence criteria to keep out a profligate, chronically indebted Italy.

Sentence Arrangement
Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D to form a coherent paragraph:
A. It begins with an ordinary fever and a moderate cough.
B. India could be under attack from a class of germs that cause what are called atypical pneumonias.
C. Slowly, a sore throat progresses to bronchitis and then pneumonia and respiratory complications.
D. It appears like the ordinary flu, but baffled doctors find that the usual drugs don’t work.

Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
A. With that prospect offering no comfort, I sat frowning at the checkered tablecloth, chewing the bitter cud of insight.
B. That wintry afternoon in Matheran, while waiting in a little French restaurant, I felt humiliated and depressed.
C. Despite this failure, I had hoped that the prospect of seeing a dear friend would cheer me, but it did not.
D. The reason for those feelings was that, through my own miscalculations, an important project had fallen through.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private label diapers