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76. CAT 2018 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. They would rather do virtuous side projects assiduously as long as these would not compel them into doing their day jobs more honourably or reduce the profit margins.
  2. They would fund a million of the buzzwordy programs rather than fundamentally question the rules of their game or alter their own behavior to reduce the harm of the existing distorted, inefficient and unfair rules.
  3. Like the dieter who would rather do anything to lose weight than actually eat less, the business elite would save the world through social-impact-investing and philanthrocapitalism.
  4. Doing the right thing — and moving away from their win-win mentality — would involve real sacrifice; instead, it’s easier to focus on their pet projects and initiatives.

 

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77. CAT 2018 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. As India looks to increase the number of cities, our urban planning must factor in potential natural disasters and work out contingencies in advance.
  2. Authorities must revise data and upgrade infrastructure and mitigation plans even if their local area hasn’t been visited by a natural calamity yet.
  3. Extreme temperatures, droughts, and forest fires have more than doubled since 1980.
  4. There is no denying the fact that our baseline normal weather is changing.
  5. It is no longer a question of whether we will be hit by nature’s fury but rather when.

 

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78. CAT 2018 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. It was his taxpayers who had to shell out as much as $1.6bn over 10 years to employees of failed companies.
  2. Companies in many countries routinely engage in such activities which means that the employees are left with unpaid entitlements
  3. Deliberate and systematic liquidation of a company to avoid liabilities and then restarting the business is called phoenixing.
  4. The Australian Minister for Revenue and Services discovered in an audit that phoenixing had cost the Australian economy between $2.9bn and $5.1bn last year.

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79. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. The process of handing down implies not a passive transfer, but some contestation in defining what exactly is to be handed down.
  2. Wherever Western scholars have worked on the Indian past, the selection is even more apparent and the inventing of a tradition much more recognizable.
  3. Every generation selects what it requires from the past and makes its innovations, some more than others.
  4. It is now a truism to say that traditions are not handed down unchanged, but are invented.
  5. Just as life has death as its opposite, so is tradition by default the opposite of innovation.

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80. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. Scientists have for the first time managed to edit genes in a human embryo to repair a genetic mutation, fuelling hopes that such procedures may one day be available outside laboratory conditions.
  2. The cardiac disease causes sudden death in otherwise healthy young athletes and affects about one in 500 people overall.
  3. Correcting the mutation in the gene would not only ensure that the child is healthy but also prevents transmission of the mutation to future generations.
  4. It is caused by a mutation in a particular gene and a child will suffer from the condition even if it inherits only one copy of the mutated gene.
  5. In results announced in Nature this week, scientists fixed a mutation that thickens the heart muscle, a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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81. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migration across Europe and Asia.
  2. The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
  3. The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today’s Russia and Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these migrations.
  4. In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive.
  5. DNA from Bronze age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in mid–1300s.

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82. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. This visual turn in social media has merely accentuated this announcing instinct of ours, enabling us with easy-to-create, easy-to-share, easy-to store and easy-to-consume platforms, gadgets and apps.
  2. There is absolutely nothing new about us farming the vision of who we are or what we want, visually or otherwise, in our Facebook page, for example.
  3. Turning the pages of most family albums, which belong to a period well before the digital dissemination of self-created and self-curated moments and images, would reconfirm the basic instinct of documenting our presence in a particular space, on a significant occasion, with others who matter.
  4. We are empowered to book our faces and act as celebrities within the confinement of our respective friend lists, and communicate our activities, companionship and locations with minimal clicks and touches.
  5. What is unprecedented is not the desire to put out newsfeeds related to the self, but the ease with which this broadcast operation can now be executed, often provoking (un)anticipated responses from beyond one’s immediate location.

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83. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. People who study children’s language spend a lot of time watching how babies reacts to the speech they hear around them.
  2. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies show any signs of understanding what the adults say.
  3. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born.
  4. Sometimes the signs are very subtle – slight movements of the baby’s eyes or the head or the hands.
  5. You’d never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you can spot them.

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84. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. Neuroscientists have just began studying exercise’s impact within brain cells – on the genes themselves.
  2. Even there, in the roots of our biology, they’ve found signs of the body’s influence on the mind.
  3. It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travels through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
  4. In today’s technology–driven, plasma–screened–in world, it’s easy to forget that we are born movers–animals, in fact – because we’ve engineered movement right out of our lives.
  5. It’s only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe–inspiring depth to the picture.

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85. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 1 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. The water that made up ancient lakes and perhaps an ocean was lost.
  2. Particles from the Sun collided with molecules in the atmosphere, knocking them into space or giving them an electric charge that caused them to be swept away by the solar wind.
  3. Most of the planet’s remaining water is now frozen or buried, but clues over the past decade suggested that some liquid water, a presumed necessity for life, might survive in underground aquifers.
  4. Data from NASA’s MAVEN orbiter show that solar storms stripped away most of Mars’s once–thick atmosphere.
  5. A recent study reveals how Mars lost much of its early water, while another indicates that some liquid water remains.

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86. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. The implications of retelling of Indian stories, hence takes on new meaning in a modern India.
  2. The stories we tell reflect the world around us.
  3. We cannot help but retell the stories that we value -after all, they are never quite right for us-in our time.
  4. And even if we manage to get them quite right, they are only right for us-other people living around us will have different reasons for telling similar stories.
  5. As soon as we capture a story, the world we were trying to capture has changed.

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87. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. Before plants can take life from atmosphere, nitrogen must undergo transformation similar to once that food undergoes in our digestive machinery.
  2. In its aerial form nitrogen in insoluble , unusable and is in need of transformation.
  3. Lightning starts the series of chemical reactions that need to happen to nitrogen, ultimately helping it nourish our earth.
  4. Nitrogen-an essential food for plants-is an abundant resource, with about 22million tons of it floating over each square mile of earth.
  5. One of the most dramatic examples in nature of ill wind that blows goodness is lightning.

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88. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. This has huge implications for the health care system as it operates today, where depleted resources and time lead to patients rotating in and out of doctor’s offices, oftentimes receiving minimal care or concern (what is company referred to as “bed side manner) from doctors.
  2. The placebo effect is when as individual’s medical condition or pain shows signs of improvement based on a fake intervention that has been presented to them as a real one and used to be regularly dismissed by researchers as a psychological effect.
  3. The placebo effect is not solely based on believing in treatment, however as the clinical setting in which treatment are administered is also paramount.
  4. That the mind has the power to trigger biochemical changes the individual believes that a given drug or intervention will be effective could empower chronic patients through the notion of our bodies capacity for self-healing.
  5. Placebo effects are now studied not just as foils for real interventions but as a potential into the self-healing powers of the body.

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89. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from 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. Johnson treated English very practically, as a living language, with many different shades of meaning and adopted his definitions on the principle of English common law-according to precedent.
  2. Masking a profound inner torment, Johnson found solace in compiling the words of a language that was, in its coarse complexity and comprehensive genius, the precise analogue of his character.
  3. Samuel Johnson was a pioneer who raised common sense to heights of genius, and a man of robust popular instincts whose watchwords were clarity, precision and simplicity.
  4. The 18th century English reader, in the new world of global trade and global warfare, needed a dictionary with authoritative acts of definition of words of a language that was becoming seeded throughout the first British empire by vigorous and practical champion.
  5. The Johnson who challenged Bishop Berkeley’s solipsist theory of the nonexistence of matter by kicking a large stone (“I refute it thus”) is the same Johnson for whom language must have a daily practical use.

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90. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. Although we are born with the gift of language, research shows that we are surprisingly unskilled when it comes to communicating with others.
  2. We must carefully orchestrate our speech if we want to achieve our goals and bring our dream to fruition.
  3. We often choose our words without thought, oblivious of the emotional effects they can have on others.
  4. We talk more than we need to, ignoring the effect we are having on those listening to us.
  5. We listen poorly, without realizing it, and we often fail to pay attention to the subtle meanings conveyed by facial expressions, body gestures, and the tone and cadence of our voice.

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91. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. Over the past fortnight, one of its finest champions managed to pull off a similar impression.
  2. Wimbledon’s greatest illusion is the sense of timelessness it evokes.
  3. At 35 years and 342 days, Roger Federer became the oldest man to win the singles title in the Open Era – a full 14 years after he first claimed the title as a scruffy, pony-tailed upstart.
  4. Once he had survived the opening week, the second week witnessed the range of a rested Federer’s genius.
  5. Given that his method isn’t reliant on explosive athleticism or muscular ball-striking, both vulnerable to decay, there is cause to believe that Federer will continue to enchant for a while longer.

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92. CAT 2017 VARC Slot 2 | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

  1. Those geometric symbols and aerodynamic swooshes are more than just skin deep.
  2. The Commonwealth Bank logo – a yellow diamond, with a black chunk sliced out in one corner – is so recognisable that the bank doesn’t even use its full name in its advertising.
  3. It’s not just logos with hidden shapes; sometimes brands will have meanings or stories within them that are deliberately vague or lost in time, urging you to delve deeper to solve the riddle.
  4. Graphic designers embed cryptic references because it adds a story to the brand; they want people to spend more time with a brand and have that idea that they are an insider if they can understand the hidden message.
  5. But the CommonBank logo has more to it than meets the eye, as squirrelled away in that diamond is the Southern Cross constellation.

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93. CAT 2007 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

  1. In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups.
  2. Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
  3. And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
  4. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
  5. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.

  • (a)

    BCDE

  • (b)

    DBEC

  • (c)

    BDCE

  • (d)

    ECBD

  • (e)

    EBCD

94. CAT 2007 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

  1. Personal experience of mothering and motherhood are largely framed in relation to two discernible or “official” discourses: the “medical discourse and natural childbirth discourse”. Both of these tend to focus on the “optimistic stories” of birth and mothering and underpin stereotypes of the “godmother”.
  2. At the same time, the need for medical expert guidance is also a feature for contemporary reproduction and motherhood. But constructions of good mothering have not always been so conceived- and in different contexts may exist in parallel to other equally dominant discourses.
  3. Similarly, historical work has shown how what are now taken-for-granted aspects of reproduction and mothering practices result from contemporary “pseudoscientific directives” and “managed constructs”. These changes have led to a reframing of modern discourses that pattern pregnancy and motherhood leading to an acceptance of the need for greater expert management.
  4. The contrasting, overlapping and ambiguous strands within these frameworks focus to varying degrees on a woman’s biological tie to her child and predisposition to instinctively know and be able to care for her child.
  5. In addition, a third, “unofficial popular discourse” comprising “old wives” tales and based on maternal experiences of childbirth has also been noted. These discourses have also been acknowledged in work exploring the experiences of those who apparently do not “conform” to conventional stereotypes of the “good mother”

  • (a)

    EDBC

  • (b)

    BCED

  • (c)

    DBEC

  • (d)

    EDCB

  • (e)

    BCDE

95. CAT 2007 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

  1. Indonesia has experienced dramatic shifts in its formal governance arrangements since the fall of President Soeharto and the close of his centralized, authoritarian "New Order" regime in 1997.
  2. The political system has taken its place in the nearly 10 years since Reformasi began. It has featured the active contest for political office among a proliferation of parties at central, provincial and district levels; direct elections for the presidency (since 2004); and radical changes in centre- local government relations towards administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization.
  3. The mass media, once tidily under Soeharto's thumb, has experienced significant liberalization as has the legal basis for non-governmental organizations, including many dedicated to such controversial issues as corruption control and human rights.
  4. Such developments are seen optimistically by a number of donors and some external analysts, who interpret them as signs of Indonesia's political normalization.
  5. A different group of analysts paint a picture in which the institutional forms have changed, but power relations have not. Vedi Hadiz argues that Indonesia's "democratic transition" has been anything but linear.

  • (a)

    BDEC

  • (b)

    CBDE

  • (c)

    CEBD

  • (d)

    DEBC

  • (e)

    BCDE

96. CAT 2007 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

  1. I had six thousand acres of land, and had thus got much spare land besides the coffee plantation. Part of the farm was native forest, and about one thousand acres were squatters' land, what [the Kikuyu] called their shambas.
  2. The squatters' land was more intensely alive than the rest of the farm, and was changing with the seasons the year round. The maize grew up higher than your head as you walked on the narrow hard-trampled footpaths in between the tall green rustling regiments.
  3. The squatters are natives, who with their families hold a few acres on a white man's farm, and in return have to work for him a certain number of days in the year. My squatters, I think, saw the relationship in a different light, for many of them were born on the farm, and their fathers before them, and they very likely regarded me as a sort of superior squatter on their estates.
  4. The Kikuyu also grew the sweet potatoes that have a vine like leaf and spread over the ground like a dense entangled mat, and many varieties of big yellow and green speckled pumpkins.
  5. The beans ripened in the fields, were gathered and thrashed by the women, and the maize stalk and coffee pods were collected and burned, so that in certain seasons thin blue columns of smoke rose here and there all over the farm.

  • (a)

    CBDE

  • (b)

    BCDE

  • (c)

    CBED

  • (d)

    DBCE

  • (e)

    EDBC

97. CAT 2005 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.

  1. Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact  is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
  2. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
  3. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation - being low class and being female - that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
  4. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
  5. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.

  • (a)

    EABDC

  • (b)

    EBDCA

  • (c)

    DAEBC

  • (d)

    BECDA

98. CAT 2005 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.

  1. When identity is thus ‘defined by contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
  2. Indian religious literature such as the Bhagavad Gita or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from secular writings seen as ‘western’, elicits much greater interest in the West than do other Indian writings, including India's long history of heterodoxy.
  3. There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
  4. Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
  5. The exception is the Kamasutra in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.

  • (a)

    BDACE

  • (b)

    DEABC

  • (c)

    BDECA

  • (d)

    BCEDA

99. CAT 2005 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.

  1. This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe- up to a point.
  2. It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
  3. Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
  4. The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.
  5. This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.

  • (a)

    ADCBE

  • (b)

    EBDCA

  • (c)

    ABDCE

  • (d)

    DCBEA

100. CAT 2004 VARC | Para Jumbles CAT Question

Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.

  1. The two neighbours never fought each other.
  2. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
  3. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
  4. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
  5. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

  • (a)

    BEDAC

  • (b)

    DEBAC

  • (c)

    BDCAE

  • (d)

    BCEDA

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