Para Jumbles - SSC
Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) PB Shelly was an English poet.
b) He was expelled from Oxford for publishing a tract entitled ‘The Necessity of Atheism’.
c) He detested tyranny and institutionalised servitude.
d) Born into a wealthy upper-class family.
- A.
d,c,a,b
- B.
a,d,c,b
- C.
a,b,c,d
- D.
c,a,b,d
Answer: Option B
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Thus, children in India have the unique opportunity to receive a world-class education.
B. Since ancient times, India has been known for its great educational system.
C. Today, there are thousands of schools in India, many of which are among the best in the world.
D. The country's first university, Nalanda, was founded over 1,000 years ago.
- A.
ABCD
- B.
DCBA
- C.
BDCA
- D.
CBAD
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. These carriers of bacteria and viruses cause many diseases like Yellow Fever, Malaria etc. so panchayats and municipalities are taking a lot of care to protect people from them.
B. There are thousands of species of mosquitoes that are known to the people of the world. They mainly live in still water and other places where water is stored.
C. Mosquitos are everywhere now. Villagers, as well as city dwellers are afraid of these small creatures.
D. Usually, female and male mosquitoes take feed on plant’s or fruit honey, however female mosquitoes mostly suck the blood of humans.
- A.
ADCB
- B.
DABC
- C.
CBAD
- D.
ACBD
Answer: Option C
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Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) Though she was a woman of slim build
b) Mrs. Hima Raman used to teach us geography at school
c) she was remarkably strong and energetic
d) She had beautiful eyes and a sharp nose
- A.
c,d,a,b
- B.
a,c,d,b
- C.
a,b,c,d
- D.
b,d,a,c
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.Holi is the festival of colours which is celebrated not only in India but all across the world.
B.Then on the next day, people of all ages gather together to play with colours called 'gulal’ and coloured water called 'Dulahandi’.
C.People celebrate 'Holika Dahan’ on the first day by gathering around and burning piles of wood and cow dung and singing bhajans related to Holi.
D.It is also a festival of unity as it brings people together to celebrate a festival regardless of caste, ethnicity, or religion.
- A.
ADCB
- B.
ABCD
- C.
DCBA
- D.
ADBC
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. It provides a high-quality learning opportunity, improves student outcomes and skills, and expands educational choice options
B. Therefore, location, time, and quality are no longer considered factors in seeking degree courses or higher education because of online education.
C. Online education is an amenable instructional delivery process that includes any learning that takes place via the internet.
D. Its potential advantages involve increased educational access.
- A.
ABCD
- B.
CBDA
- C.
DCAB
- D.
CDAB
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Two astronomers - Johannes Kepler from Germany and Galileo from Italy - supported the Copernican theory after nearly a century passed by.
B. Copernicus’ view was that the sun was stationary and the earth and the planets moved in orbits around the sun.
C. Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish priest, proposed a model in 1514.
D. There are many popular theories about the solar system. Ancient People believed that the sun moved around the earth and the earth was static.
- A.
ABCD
- B.
DCBA
- C.
BCAD
- D.
DACB
Answer: Option B
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Because the educational institution's teaching staff is actively involved.
B. Curricular or academic activities refer to activities that cover the specified courses of study.
C. These exercises are an essential component of the overall educational curriculum.
D. In layman's terms, ‘curricular activities’ are activities that take place within the classroom.
- A.
CDBA
- B.
BDCA
- C.
DABC
- D.
DBCA
Answer: Option B
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.The current concern is that it is rising day by day due to various resources of pollutants.
B.It has been there in different forms since a long time, even before human evolution, such as volcanic eruptions, wildfire which led to various photochemical reactions in the atmosphere.
C.Pollution has become a very common yet serious issue in today’s world.
D.And, one of the main pollutants are humans and man-made machines.
- A.
CBAD
- B.
ABCD
- C.
CDBA
- D.
CADB
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The deeper you immerse it, the greater will be the difference in the water level.
B. This difference in the levels in the U-tube is a measure of the pressure applied by your palm.
C. If you immerse the funnel into a bucket of water, you will again see the difference in the water level in the U-tube.
D. When you gently apply pressure on the rubber film with your palm, you will find that a difference in the water level is created in the manometer.
- A.
BACD
- B.
CBAD
- C.
DBCA
- D.
ABCD
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningfuland coherent paragraph.
A.These great leaders never escaped from their responsibilities and challenges because they knew greatness would come through great responsibilities.
B.Leadership is one of the crucial elements in the field of management because most of the time success or failure depends on the managerial skills of a leader.
C.There are not many leaders in the present world because, unlike ancient times, people are not ready to accept responsibilities.
D.Ancient India produced millions of people with leadership because it is an inner part of Indian culture to create leaders in every sphere of life. Chandragupta Mourya, Gandhi, Buddha, Bose etc. were leaders on this soil.
- A.
ADBC
- B.
BCAD
- C.
ADCB
- D.
BCDA
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. But while it may seem normal to you, your child may be negatively affected by your and your partner's actions.
B. There is no telling when a squabble between a couple may aggravate and escalate into something ugly, which when witnessed by a child, might devastate them gravely.
C. There's no relationship that does not falter.
D. Arguments, disagreements and conflicts are extremely common even in a healthy relationship.
- A.
CBAD
- B.
BCAD
- C.
BACD
- D.
CDAB
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Their brother, John, is more blatantly hostile to Jane, reminding her that she is a poor dependent of his mother.
B. Orphaned as an infant, Jane Eyre lives at Gateshead with her aunt, Sarah Reed, as the novel opens.
C. Her female cousins, Georgiana, and Eliza, tolerate, but don't love her.
D. Jane is ten years old, an outsider in the Reed family.
- A.
DCAB
- B.
DBCA
- C.
BDCA
- D.
BACD
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Food blogs are often authored by food aficionados, sometimes known as ‘foodies’.
B. The blogger can benefit from it if he or she uses it professionally.
C. Food blogging is food journalism that combines an interest in food, blog writing, and food photography.
D. The greater the popularity of a food blogger, the more options for him/her to monetise his/her work.
- A.
ACBD
- B.
CABD
- C.
BDCA
- D.
DABC
Answer: Option B
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.They also resolved to impose restrictions on the Russian central bank's ability to access and deploy the country's 'war chest' of an estimated $630 billion in foreign exchange reserves.
B.Saturday's announcement by the US, the UK and European allies, including France and Germany, of a raft of 'further restrictive economic measures' to increase the costs on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine has just raised the risks of a more widespread economic fallout from this war.
C.The immediate impact of these moves on Russia's economy and financial markets have manifested in a sharp depreciation in the value of the Rouble.
D.With a view to further isolating Russia from the international financial system, the Western allies decided to block 'selected' Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system that banks and financial institutions use to validate and complete international payment transactions.
- A.
BDAC
- B.
BACD
- C.
ABCD
- D.
DBAC
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. People post images of their cuisine, daily cosmetic routines, shopping videos, and dance videos.
B. Uploading photos to social networking sites has grown popular in today's society.
C. Because of the rising influence of social media on people, they want to constantly appear their best.
D. Therefore people have become more image sensors and begun to prioritise personal care.
- A.
ABCD
- B.
BCAD
- C.
ACBD
- D.
BACD
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Intelligent and strikingly attractive, Tess is indisputably the central character of the novel that bears her name.
B. But she is also more than a distinctive individual: Hardy makes her into somewhat of a mythic heroine.
C. Her name, formally Theresa, recalls St. Teresa of Avila, another martyr whose vision of a higher reality cost her, her life.
D. Tess’s story, thus, is a story representing a deeper and larger experience than that of a single individual.
- A.
ACDB
- B.
BACD
- C.
DCBA
- D.
ABCD
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. To work as a journeyman he needed to have had the seven years of apprenticeship under his belt.
B. Under advice from his well-wishers at the University, Watt proceeded to London to learn his trade.
C. Watt made acquaintances with folks at the University of Glasgow.
D. In London, he found out that as an apprentice he had to spend seven years learning the trade.
- A.
BCDA
- B.
DABC
- C.
CBDA
- D.
ABCD
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The sharp increase in our consumption of fossil fuels has led to their depletion at an alarming rate.
B. Unchecked burning of fossil fuel is like an unchecked dripping tap which will eventually run dry.
C. The toxic pollutants released from burning these fuels are also a cause for concern.
D. This has led to the tapping of various non-conventional sources of energy that are cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels.
- A.
CBAD
- B.
DCBA
- C.
CDBA
- D.
ACBD
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. However, after studying the myths scientifically, only a simpleton would find them irrational or worthless.
B. Moreover, it is wrong to analyse myths on the yardstick of their factual accuracy as they were designed to serve a greater, deeper purpose.
C. Myths have always been regarded as a complex and intriguing aspect in human life
D. In modern scientific world, they are essentially seen as something unscientific and meaningless.
- A.
ACDB
- B.
DCAB
- C.
DACB
- D.
CDAB
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.It is unquestionably evident that this virus brought misery and grief into the lives of the people of other professions too.
B.Covid-19 changed the form and face of every field in the world. It did not leave any field untouched.
C.One of the most affected areas is education. Millions of students all over the world could not get a proper education.
D.Millions of the teachers who are working, specifically in private educational institutes, were not paid full salary during the pandemic.
- A.
ACDB
- B.
BCDA
- C.
DABC
- D.
CBDA
Answer: Option B
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The first time that I was seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood and could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.
B. One Sunday, we went to church in Simsbury, and we were the only Negroes there and on Sunday mornings I was the religious leader and spoke on any text I wanted to 107 boys.
C. Just before going to college I went to Simsbury, Connecticut, and worked for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to earn a little school money to supplement what my parents were doing.
D. After that summer in Connecticut, it was a bitter feeling going back to segregation and it was hard to understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation’s capital in order to continue the trip to Atlanta.
- A.
CBDA
- B.
ADBC
- C.
CDBA
- D.
BCDA
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The Taj Mahal's history is also one of the world's greatest love stories known to everyone.
B. She was the neice of Meherunissa who was married to Prince Salim (later the Empress Nur Jahan.)
C. It all started in 1607, when Mughal Prince Khurram, first laid eyes on the lovely Arjumand Banu Begum.
D. Khurram, the son of Emperor Jahangir, voiced his wish to marry Arjumand, and their marriage was celebrated with great pomp.
- A.
ACBD
- B.
ACDB
- C.
BACD
- D.
ABCD
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music.
B. Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement. “I believe the Spring has come at last,” said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out
C. It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.
D. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by.
- A.
ADCB
- B.
BACD
- C.
BADC
- D.
ACDB
Answer: Option A
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. When the fish at last had been safely landed, I asked the brothers if they ate fish.
B. The condition that I put was that they had to help me land another fish for my men.
C. On receiving their eager answer that they most certainly did, I told them I would give them the fish we had just landed.
D. To this they readily agreed and the wait started again.
- A.
DCBA
- B.
ABCD
- C.
ACBD
- D.
BDCA
Answer: Option C
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