Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following FIVE sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
A. Wind whips off the North Sea, blasting the shelters made of tarps, tents, plastic sheeting and scrap lumber in this sprawling, ramshackle end of the line.
B. The roads in the camp are muddy; the portable toilets are filthy.
C. On the outskirts of the northern French town of Calais, a massive, makeshift refugee camp called “The Jungle” grows daily, swelling with asylum-seekers fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and beyond.
D. Their countries of origin are a map of the targets of U.S. bombing campaigns.
E. More than 6,000 people in this, France’s largest refugee camp, hope for a chance to make the last, dangerous leg of their journey through the nearby channel tunnel to England.
Q1. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q2. Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q3. Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q4. Which of the following will be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q5. Which of the following will be the Fourth sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following FIVE sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
A. Accessing either type of train involves significant risk, and accidental deaths occur almost weekly when people leap onto moving trains or stumble under vehicle tires.
B. Most who arrive here have endured arduous journeys of thousands of miles, hoping to cross to the United Kingdom.
C. A few days before we visited the camp, a Sudanese man named Joseph was killed when he was run over by a car on the highway.
D. Camp residents were protesting that the police had not stopped the driver, holding signs reading “We are Humans, Not Dogs” and “Do survivors of war not have the right to live in peace?”
E. The channel tunnel offers asylum-seekers a way to make it to the U.K. without risking a dangerous crossing of the English Channel, by stowing away on either a high-speed passenger train or a freight train.
Q6. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q7. Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q8. Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q9. Which of the following will be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q10. Which of the following will be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following FIVE sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
A. The Senate panel was called “Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance between Public Safety and Privacy.”
B. FBI Director James Comey appeared before a Senate Committee on Wednesday, July 8, along with U.S Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates.
C. “Going Dark” is a term used when people encrypt their communications.
D. A joint statement from the duo, delivered by Yates, acknowledged “citizens have the right to communicate with one another in private without unauthorised government surveillance – not simply because the Constitution demands it, but because the free flow of information is vital to a thriving democracy.”
E. As the meeting convened, the frailty of our networks was on display for the world: The New York Stock Exchange was shut down for half a day, supposedly due to a computer “glitch”; United Airlines grounded flights when it lost access to its computer systems; and The Wall Street Journal website was down due to “technical difficulties.”
Q11. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F
Q12. Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q13. Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q14. Which of the following will be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q15. Which of the following will be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Solutions
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. ‘Their’ in the 4th sentence refers to the asylum seekers mentioned in the 3rd sentence. 5th is the extension of the 1st sentence (refugee camp). North Sea in the 1st sentence corresponds to the ‘channel’ in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence gives details of the living conditions in the camp; continues the idea of ‘shelter’ in the previous sentence. Hence CDEAB is the answer.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘Their’ in the 4th sentence refers to the asylum seekers mentioned in the 3rd sentence. 5th is the extension of the 1st sentence (refugee camp). North Sea in the 1st sentence corresponds to the ‘channel’ in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence gives details of the living conditions in the camp; continues the idea of ‘shelter’ in the previous sentence. Hence CDEAB is the answer.
S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘Their’ in the 4th sentence refers to the asylum seekers mentioned in the 3rd sentence. 5th is the extension of the 1st sentence (refugee camp). North Sea in the 1st sentence corresponds to the ‘channel’ in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence gives details of the living conditions in the camp; continues the idea of ‘shelter’ in the previous sentence. Hence CDEAB is the answer.
S4. Ans(b)
Sol. ‘Their’ in the 4th sentence refers to the asylum seekers mentioned in the 3rd sentence. 5th is the extension of the 1st sentence (refugee camp). North Sea in the 1st sentence corresponds to the ‘channel’ in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence gives details of the living conditions in the camp; continues the idea of ‘shelter’ in the previous sentence. Hence CDEAB is the answer.
S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. ‘Their’ in the 4th sentence refers to the asylum seekers mentioned in the 3rd sentence. 5th is the extension of the 1st sentence (refugee camp). North Sea in the 1st sentence corresponds to the ‘channel’ in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence gives details of the living conditions in the camp; continues the idea of ‘shelter’ in the previous sentence. Hence CDEAB is the answer.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. The 2nd sentence lays the framework for the rest of the paragraph, hence the opener. The 5th sentence talks about how people fulfil their wish to go to UK mentioned in 2nd sentence; 1st sentence talks about the types of train; 3rd is an example of accidental death and 4th sentence talks about the reaction of the camp residents to these unfortunate deaths. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S7. Ans.(e)
Sol. The 2nd sentence lays the framework for the rest of the paragraph, hence the opener. The 5th sentence talks about how people fulfil their wish to go to UK mentioned in 2nd sentence; 1st sentence talks about the types of train; 3rd is an example of accidental death and 4th sentence talks about the reaction of the camp residents to these unfortunate deaths. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S8. Ans.(e)
Sol. The 2nd sentence lays the framework for the rest of the paragraph, hence the opener. The 5th sentence talks about how people fulfil their wish to go to UK mentioned in 2nd sentence; 1st sentence talks about the types of train; 3rd is an example of accidental death and 4th sentence talks about the reaction of the camp residents to these unfortunate deaths. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. The 2nd sentence lays the framework for the rest of the paragraph, hence the opener. The 5th sentence talks about how people fulfil their wish to go to UK mentioned in 2nd sentence; 1st sentence talks about the types of train; 3rd is an example of accidental death and 4th sentence talks about the reaction of the camp residents to these unfortunate deaths. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. The 2nd sentence lays the framework for the rest of the paragraph, hence the opener. The 5th sentence talks about how people fulfil their wish to go to UK mentioned in 2nd sentence; 1st sentence talks about the types of train; 3rd is an example of accidental death and 4th sentence talks about the reaction of the camp residents to these unfortunate deaths. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. The 2nd sentence introduces the details of a meeting discussed in the paragraph; the 5th takes it forward – ‘as the meeting convened;’ the 1st and 3rd sentence give the highlight of the discussion. The 4th sentence is the outcome of the meeting. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S12. Ans.(e)
Sol. The 2nd sentence introduces the details of a meeting discussed in the paragraph; the 5th takes it forward – ‘as the meeting convened;’ the 1st and 3rd sentence give the highlight of the discussion. The 4th sentence is the outcome of the meeting. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S13. Ans.(e)
Sol. The 2nd sentence introduces the details of a meeting discussed in the paragraph; the 5th takes it forward – ‘as the meeting convened;’ the 1st and 3rd sentence give the highlight of the discussion. The 4th sentence is the outcome of the meeting. Hence BEACD is the answer.
Sol. The 2nd sentence introduces the details of a meeting discussed in the paragraph; the 5th takes it forward – ‘as the meeting convened;’ the 1st and 3rd sentence give the highlight of the discussion. The 4th sentence is the outcome of the meeting. Hence BEACD is the answer.
S15 . Ans.(b)
Sol. The 2nd sentence introduces the details of a meeting discussed in the paragraph; the 5th takes it forward – ‘as the meeting convened;’ the 1st and 3rd sentence give the highlight of the discussion. The 4th sentence is the outcome of the meeting. Hence BEACD is the answer.
