Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Paragraph Jumbles, Exercise 8: CAT 1995

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences $1$ and $6$.

$1$. The market mechanism is the natural coordinator of private sector activities.

(A) It is also linked to the centrality of the notion of a free contract for both the operation of the market mechanism and the safeguarding of pri- vate property.

(B) This is linked to the autonomy of the decision maker under the market mechanism.

(C) It is futile to expect the State unit to behave as if it were privately owned.

(D) It is time to get rid of this vain hope once and for all.

$6$. There is no reason to be astonished by the fact that the State ownership permanently recreates the bu- reaucracy because it is but an organic part of the bureaucratic hierarchy.

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences $1$ and $6$.

$1$. A manager is faced with innumerable situations in which he has to make a choice.

(A) These are not the only kind of decisions that managers take.

(B) As a seller, he has to decide what to sell.

(C) As a producer, he has to decide what to pro- duce, how to produce, how much to produce and where to produce.

(D) As a buyer, he has to decide what to buy.

$6$. They generally face a wide range of situations in- volving choice.

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences $1$ and $6$.

$1$. Operating a small motel, I tried to avoid answering the doorbell before 6:30 a.m.

(A) One morning at about five o'clock, the doorbell rang.

(B) So I had a box put up next to the door and placed a sign on it saying, Deposit keys here.

(C) But some guests continued to summon me as early as 4:30 a.m.

(D) Customers were told to leave their keys in the rooms when checking out.

$6$6. When I opened the office door, a smiling guest greeted me with: I just wanted you to know, I put my key in the box.

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

(A) Widely publicized tables of income levels of all countries indicate that when incomes are higher, the greater is the contribution made by the manufacturing industry.

(B) Countries which have little or no industry are almost invariably poor.

(C) The lesson is clear: to overcome poverty and backwardness, a country must industrialize.

(D) Industrialization is seen as the key to growth and a prerequisite for development.

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

(A) A wife may not be sure that what her husband is saying means the end.

(B) She has found that people's voices often get higher or shriller when they lie, and they are more likely to stumble over words.

(C) According to De Paulo, changes in voice can be significant.

(D) She should listen closely, not only to what he says, but how he says it.

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

(A) He pulled popcorn dipped in ketchup out of her mouth with a pair of pliers.

(B) Soon Steven was making horror pictures, using his sisters as victims.

(C) A few years later, Steven borrowed his dad's eight-millimeter movie camera to film 'The Last Train Wreck' using his own electric train set.

(D) In one, he played a dentist, with his sister Ann as the patient.

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

(A) In bulk processing, a set of standard prices typi- cally emerge.

(B) Competing therefore means keeping products flowing, trying to improve quality, getting costs down.

(C) Let us look at the two cultures of competition.

(D) Production tends to be repetitive-much the same from day to day or even from year to year

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

(A) A moment later, my prospective fiancée reap- peared and shoved a ticket to Jiuquan through the hatch.

(B) The queue gazed at me dumbstruck, then broke into a little ripple of applause.

(C) The station master and clerk retreated into the back room

(D) I lifted it like a trophy.