Test: Para Jumbles (Without Options) - 1 - CAT MCQ

Five sentences are given below, which when arranged properly, form a logical and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the given sentences and enter the correct order as the answer.

1. When these habits have fixed themselves for long enough upon their victims, the nerves give way and severe depression or some other form of nervous prostration is the result.
2. If, however, there simply is an enforced rest, without any intelligent understanding of the trouble, the invalid gets "well" only to drag out a miserable existence or to get very ill again.
3. People form habits which cause nervous strain.
4. Although any nervous suffering is worthwhile if it is the means of teaching us how to avoid nervous strain, it certainly is far preferable to avoid the strain without the extreme pain of a nervous breakdown.
5. If such an illness turns the attention to its cause, and so starts the sufferer toward a radical change from habits which cause nervous strain to habits which bring nervous strength, then the illness can be the beginning of better and permanent health.

Five sentences are given below, which when arranged properly, form a logical and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the given sentences and enter the correct order as the answer.

1. A good illustration of this is afforded by space and time.
2. If we travel along a straight line in either direction, it is difficult to believe that we shall finally reach a last point, beyond which there is nothing, not even empty space.
3. Most of the great ambitious attempts of metaphysicians have proceeded by the attempt to prove that such and such apparent features of the actual world were self-contradictory, and therefore could not be real.
4. Space and time appear to be infinite in extent, and infinitely divisible.
5. The whole tendency of modern thought, however, is more and more in the direction of showing that the supposed contradictions were illusory, and that very little can be proved a priori from considerations of what must be.

The following statements when properly arranged form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4). Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.

1. The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again.
2. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD.
3. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes.
4. The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.

Four of the given sentences can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1. There is a saying of an ancient Sanskrit poet which, being translated into English, runs: "In a hundred ages of the gods I could not tell you of the glories of Himachal."
2. The avifauna of the Himalayas is a large and beautiful one.
3. This every writer on things Himalayan contrives to drag into his composition.
4. Himalayan birds inhabit what is perhaps the most wonderful tract of country in the world.
5. The Himalayas are not so much a chain of mountains as a mountainous country, some eighty miles broad and several hundred long—a country composed entirely of mountains and valleys with no large plains or broad plateaux

Following sentences labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 when arranged properly make a coherent passage. Enter the correct sequence after the arrangement.

1: The first is the only one considered by Galton.
2: These two terms include everything that can pertain to a human being.
3: The words are not wholly suitable, particularly since nature has two distinct meanings,—human nature and external nature.
4: Further, nurture is capable of subdivision into those environmental influences which do not undergo much change and those forces of civilization and education which might better be described as culture.
5: Galton adopted and popularized Shakespeare's antithesis of nature and nurture to describe a man's inheritance and his surroundings.

Five sentences are given below labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Of these, four sentences, when arranged properly, make a meaningful and coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

1. But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas.
2. That is perhaps true, and it suggests a comparison which illuminates both men.
3. Critics have often suggested that Roosevelt stole Bryan's clothes.
4. There is a great deal of literal truth in that remark, for it has been the peculiar work of Bryan to express in politics some of that emotion which has made America the home of new religions.
5. It would not be unfair to say that it is always the function of the Roosevelts to take from the Bryans.

Five sentences are given below labeled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Of these, four sentences, when arranged properly, make a meaningful and coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key it in as the answer.

1. A broken will is worse misfortune than a broken back.
2. It is only a strong, unbroken, persistent will that is adequate to achieve self-mastery, and mastery of the difficulties of life.
3. In the latter case the man is physically crippled; in the former, he is morally crippled.
4. Nor is there much difficulty in leading even a very strong-willed and obstinate child to give up his own way under extraordinary circumstances.
5. The effort to break the child's will has long been recognized as disastrous by all educators.