Para Jumbles - SSC
Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) Non-verbal communication is a means
b) This is possible by using visual clues
c) By which you are able to communicate without speaking
d) Such as facial expressions, eye-contact, postures, gestures etc.
- A.
a,c,b,d
- B.
b,d,c,a
- C.
d,c,a,b
- D.
a,b,c,d
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. To think that a computer would one day replace a book is indeed unthinkable and far fetched.
B.The thoughts and ideas contained in a book are immortal like Tulsidas’s Ram Charitra Manas, Ved Vyas’ Mahabharata, The Bible and many other religious and literary works like Shakespeare’s plays etc.
C.On the other hand a computer is but a machine, that at best can visually display the contents of a specific book.
D.A good book in the words of John Milton “is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up to a purpose to a life beyond life.”
- A.
DBCA
- B.
ABDC
- C.
BDAC
- D.
DCBA
Answer: Option A
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Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) Jumped off the bus in front of the old woman’s home
b) It was mid-morning and a very cold, bright day
c) Holding a potted planted before her, a girl of fourteen
d) On the outskirts of town
- A.
a,b,c,d,
- B.
a,d,c,b,
- C.
b,c,a,d
- D.
c,a,b,d
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. For the next two years the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the ‘Secret Annex’ of an old office building.
B. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne, and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding.
C. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of these experiences during this period.
D. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death.
- A.
CDAB
- B.
BADC
- C.
BCAD
- D.
BACD
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 two children were so like, that without much difficulty it could not be discerned of their proper parents, which was Titus from Gisippus, or Gisippus from Titus.
B. There was in the city of Rome a noble senator, named Fulvius, who sent his son, called Titus, being a child, to the city of Athens, in Greece (which was the fountain of all manner of doctrine), there to learn good letters : and caused him to be hosted with a worshipful mart of that city, called Chremes.
C. This Chremes happened to have also a son named Gisippus, who not only was equal to the said young Titus in years, but also in stature, proportion of body, favour, and colour of visage, countenance and speech
D. These two young gentlemen, as they seemed to be one in form and personage, so shortly after acquaintance, the same nature wrought in their hearts such a mutual affection, and their wills and appetites daily more and more so confederated themselves, that it seemed none other, when their names were declared, but that they had only changed their places, issuing (as I might say) out of the one body, and entering into the other.
- A.
ADBC
- B.
BACD
- C.
BCAD
- D.
DBCA
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. Wearing noise cancellation headphones is an example of such equipment.
B. Preventive measures involve the availability of proper equipment.
C. Noise exposure is the primary reason for hearing loss among the workers.
D. It affects the working class in a big way both mentally and physically.
- A.
CDBA
- B.
BDCA
- C.
CDAB
- D.
ADBC
Answer: Option A
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Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) Further, loud music is also a cause of noise pollution
b) Noise pollution is the result of aircraft and heavy traffic.
c) which has been seen to affect people’s hearing and
d) give them severe headaches and high blood pressure
- A.
a,b,c,d
- B.
c,a,b,d
- C.
d,c,a,b
- D.
b,a,c,d
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.People can get in touch with the larger global community by communicating and sharing their views via social media.
B.Furthermore, this provides a suitable platform to express their views, conduct business with online transactions, or find new people or jobs.
C.Smartphones have become a very important form of communication these days.
D.It is impossible for a rational person to deny the advantages of smartphones as they are devices suitable for a wide variety of tasks
- A.
CBDA
- B.
CDAB
- C.
DCBA
- D.
ABCD
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. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived), which had been the scene—so at least it was generally believed in that part of the country—of the tragic incidents which they had lately become familiar with from the ballad of the Children in the Wood.
B. Here, Alice put out one of her dear mother’s looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.
C. Children love to listen to stories about their elders when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw.
D. Certain it is, that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in the wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall— the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts—till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it.
- A.
CDBA
- B.
CADB
- C.
DBCA
- D.
ADCB
Answer: Option B
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Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence.
a) is credited with saying
b) do not dry your feet
c) If you want to leave your footprint on the sands of time,
d) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India
- A.
d,c,a,b
- B.
d,a,c,b
- C.
c,a,b,d
- D.
a,b,c,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. In 1895, a man named Birsa was seen roaming the forests and villages of Chottanagpur in Jharkhand.
B. Soon thousands began following Birsa, believing that he was God and had come to solve all their problems.
C. Birsa himself declared that God had appointed him to save his people from trouble, free them from the slavery of ‘dikus’.
D. People said he had miraculous powers - he could cure all diseases and multiply grain.
- A.
CABD
- B.
BADC
- C.
ADCB
- D.
DCBA
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.In its most humble function, it is a necessary guide without which progress from place to place would be a ceaseless experiment; it is a sustenance without which organised society would be impossible, thus the Road moves and controls all history.
B.The Road is one of the great fundamental institutions of mankind.
C.It is the Road which controls the development of strategies and fixes the sites of battles. It is the Road that gives framework to all economic development. It is the Road which is the channel of all trade, and, what is more important, of all ideas.
D.Not only is the Road one of the great human institutions because it is fundamental to social existence, but also because its varied effects appear in every department of the State. It is the Road which determines the sites of many cities and the growth and nourishment of all.
- A.
BDCA
- B.
DBAC
- C.
CDAB
- D.
ABCD
Answer: Option A
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Identify the option that arranges the given parts in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
a) However, through sheer grit and determination
b) Nick was able to get admission to a high school
c) Nick Vujicic was prevented from
d) attending mainstream middle schools.
- A.
d,c,a,b
- B.
a,b,c,d
- C.
b,c,a,d
- D.
c,d,a,b
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. Dumbledore tells McGonagall that someone named Voldemort has killed a Mr. and Mrs. Potter and tried unsuccessfully to kill their baby son, Harry.
B. Dumbledore leaves Harry with an explanatory note in a basket in front of the Dursley home.
C. Mr. Dursley, a well-off Englishman, notices strange happenings on his way to work one day.
D. That night, Albus Dumbledore, the head of a wizardry academy called Hogwarts, meets Professor McGonagall, who also teaches at Hogwarts, and a giant named Hagrid outside the Dursley home.
- A.
BCAD
- B.
DCAB
- C.
ADBC
- 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. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street, and dies just after Oliver’s birth.
B. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse.
C. Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England.
D. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults.
- A.
CBDA
- B.
CDAB
- C.
BDCA
- D.
CADB
Answer: Option D
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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.
A. The town of Lustenau in Austria claims to have built a world record-breaking bonfire.
B. The structure took three months to build but collapsed in less than half an hour last Saturday evening.
C. Embers from the big fire fell onto nearby market traders, but local fire crews were on hand to make sure that everyone was safe.
D. According to the organizers, the pyre reached as high as 60 meters.
- A.
ABCD
- B.
ADBC
- C.
ACBD
- D.
ABDC
Answer: Option B
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Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. He seemed to remain that high for nearly two years.
B. Kari, the elephant was five months old when he was given to me to take care of.
C. We grew together, that is probably why I never found out just how tall he was.
D. I was nine years old and I could reach his back if I stood on tiptoe.
- A.
BDAC
- B.
BCAD
- C.
ADCB
- D.
DBCA
Answer: Option A
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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, select the one that gives their correct order.
A. He told his friends that his difficulties were a sign of God’s confidence in him.
B. A businessman remained cheerful even though he suffered one catastrophe after another.
C. Therefore, when he was serving in the armed forces too, his senior officer had chosen him for dangerous missions because he knew he could be trusted.
D. First, his son had a serious accident and then he had huge losses in his business, but he was not perturbed.
- A.
BACD
- B.
BCDA
- C.
BDAC
- D.
BCAD
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. In other words, chess and basketball are contests.
B. As games, chess and basketball are obviously different from leapfrog and playing house.
C. One can win a game of basketball, but it makes no sense to ask who has won a game of leapfrog.
D. The first two games are competitive, the second two are not.
- A.
BCAD
- B.
DCBA
- C.
BDCA
- D.
ACDB
Answer: Option C
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Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. His school was closed as it was the height of summer.
B. It was on one such day that Ranji discovered a pool in the forest.
C. As he had no friends yet, he wandered alone in the hills and forests.
D. Ranji had been less than a month in Rajpur.
- A.
ACBD
- B.
CBDA
- C.
BADC
- D.
DACB
Answer: Option D
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The word Jama means ‘a robe or shawl’ and War means ‘Yard (the measuring unit)’.
B. Jamawar (also spelled as Jamavar) is a fabric that has its roots in Kashmir.
C. People in the earlier times used to buy a yard of the shawl to protect themselves from the chilly winter.
D. The Jamawar is an adulterated form of Pashmina silk since it contains a blend of cotton and wool.
- A.
BACD
- B.
BCAD
- C.
DCBA
- D.
DCAB
Answer: Option A
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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, select the one that gives their correct order.
A. On either side of the trunk there are a few scattered tufts of short grass.
B. It is towards one of these fallen trees that I am now looking.
C. A very violent cyclonic storm has struck the forest, uprooting a number of trees.
D. The trunk of the tree is ripped apart and the branches are lying all around it.
- A.
ABDC
- B.
ADBC
- C.
CBDA
- D.
CDAB
Answer: Option C
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. His father shifted his own ambitions to those of his son, providing him with models and support for his first exhibition at the age of 13.
B. Pablo Picasso was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a professor of drawing, and Maria Picasso López.
C. From that point his ability to experiment with what he learned and to develop new expressive means quickly allowed him to surpass his father’s abilities.
D. His unusual adeptness for drawing began to manifest itself early, around the age of 10, when he became his father’s pupil.
- A.
BDCA
- B.
DCAB
- C.
BADC
- D.
CDAB
Answer: Option A
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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, pick the one that gives their correct order.
A. One day the tailor and his wife discovered that their son was not in the house.
B. The father went to the roadside and shouted, “John!”
C. No one answered.
D. They looked in the garden, and did not find him there.
- A.
ADBC
- B.
BACD
- C.
ABDC
- D.
BDAC
Answer: Option A
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Examine the four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, pick the one that gives their correct order.
A. Wasserkopf returns to his school and asks for a refund of his tuition fee.
B. ‘Refund’ by Karinthy is a hilarious play about a student named Wasserkopf.
C. However, the situation changes when the Mathematics teacher asks him to calculate the total amount.
D. He further declares that he had learnt nothing at school in all the years.
- A.
ADCB
- B.
BCAD
- C.
CBAD
- D.
BADC
Answer: Option D
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