Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Paragraph Jumbles, Exercise 13: CAT 2001

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing.

(B) Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment.

(C) While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.

(D) Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early, unless they are forced to be punctual.

(E) Work is not intrinsically valued in India.

(F) Quite often, people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even during office hours.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) But in the industrial era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.

(B) So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.

(C) Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.

(D) How do you do battle with your enemy?

(E) The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.

(F) With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.

(B) But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.

(C)He acknowledges too-in fact he returns to the point often that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.

(D) Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.

(E) In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

 (A) Passivity is not, of course, universal.

 (B) In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different.

 (C) So indeed, it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.

 (D) However, for most of the soil-bound peasants, the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.

 (E) This depends on an assessment of the political situation.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(A) The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman's question: "Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?"

(B) So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.

(C) Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here, there are probably some rules.

(D) However, binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance, a bystander or outsider is killed.