CET Para Jumbles Questions with Solutions – Page 6

Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
1. Would you steal a software programme out of a retail shop?
2. The industry, on its part, has formed an organization to specially gather information and drag software pirates to the courts.
3. But more than the legality, there is always a different way of looking at piracy and that is in terms of morality.
4. The Government, on the other hand, has initiated National Enforcements Committees.
5. As far as the issue of tackling piracy is concerned, both the industry and the government have already started initiating action.

Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
1. Scientists have managed to edit genes in a human embryo to repair a genetic mutation, raising hopes for possible future medical applications.
2. The cardiac disease can cause sudden death in otherwise healthy young athletes.
3. Correcting this mutation could not only reduce the child’s risk of the disease but also prevent transmission of the mutation to future generations.
4. It is caused by a mutation in a particular gene, and inheriting one mutated copy can be enough for the condition to develop.
5. In the reported experiment, scientists targeted a mutation associated with thickening of the heart muscle, a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

The five sentences labelled (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. Like a driver changing tire in the middle of the highway, they hope an oncoming vehicle will not hit them before their work is done.
2. Some business executives have adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
3. Others are too busy bailing themselves out of trouble caused by the changes that have taken place around them to have any time to reflect on the future.
4. Like deer caught in the headlight of an oncoming truck, they risk being run over.
5. Discussion with several executives in both situations shows that they recognize the danger in not applying themselves to understanding the shape of the future

Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
1. The price of this banishment is a diminished capacity to marvel at what we do not understand.
2. Yet even within science, recovered wonder remains both marvellous and unsettling, because it challenges the security we seek.
3. We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has largely been banished.
4. This loss reflects our preference for predictable security over the uncertainties that wonder brings.
5. Within that secure world, the magician’s sense of hidden possibility survives chiefly in science, where discovery can still surprise us.

Arrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph. Choose the correct sequence.
1. People therefore began to fear a famine.
2. The monsoon failed, and the water tanks became almost empty.
3. That next monsoon proved unusually abundant, and the danger was averted.
4. With so little water available, the farmers could sow no grain in their fields.
5. To escape that feared famine, the farmers waited anxiously for the next monsoon.