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Given below are three interesting questions on Sentence Rearrangement :
Question 1 :
EDCAB
EDBAC
EBADC
ECDBA
Question 2 :
BADEC
BADCE
BDAEC
ADBEC
Question 1 :
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Another of his start-ups was sold to Google.
- He founded the first company to sell virtual reality products.
- But unlike most of his fellow technologists, he eventually came to feel that the rise of digital networks was no panacea.
- He was there, more or less, at its creation.
- Lanier has an unusual authority to criticize the digital economy:
Following are the choices :
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Two reforms are possible here. The first is to encourage more entrants, since competition will reduce the incentive to store for long periods.
- However, if storage facilities are controlled by a small group of middlemen who procure in large volumes to manipulate price, it amounts to market failure.
- Hence, creation of storage facilities is encouraged in policy circles.
- Indian agriculture is vulnerable to sharp price cycles.
- The second is to bring in some degree of transparency and market intelligence.
Following are the choices :
- DCAEB
- CBDAE
- AECBD
- DCBAE
Question 3 :
Directions: Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Lying at the point where the Eurasian plate constantly bumps up against the Indo-Australian plate, volcanoes in the archipelago have long been associated with outsized eruptions, deaths and misery.
- With some 130 active volcanoes, Indonesia is a hotbed of tectonic plate activity.
- The flip side of the destruction is the availability of a vast amount of geothermal energy that if harnessed, can provide Indonesia with the kind of clean and reliable energy source it is in desperate need of.
- The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, for example, killed more than 36,000 people and is considered to be one of the loudest sounds ever heard in modern history.
- But all this geological ferment is not an unmitigated negative.
Following are the choices :
Explanation :
Question 1 : It is clear that the starting sentence is ‘E’. Every other sentence refers to ‘he’ or ‘his’, while E refers to the name ‘Lanier’. E says that Lanier has unusual authority to criticize; the best sentence to follow this would be D, which elaborates on why this authority is.
So, we start with ED. BA seems to be a link. So, we could EDBAC or EDCAB. Between these two, EDBAC is better, as B and A elaborate on the idea espoused in E and C talks about something else. EDBAC is the solution. Answer Choice (2)
Question 2 : AE is a powerful link; probably the most obvious one. However, we see that all the choices have AE. A refers to reforms. So, the previous sentence should refer to some problem. The best bet is B. D seems to be the best starting sentence, and the best order would be DCBAE.
Answer Choice (4)
Question 3 : E and C talk about the positives, of the other side, of the volcanoes. So, they should probably appear together and in the end. A talks about deaths and misery, D gives an example of this. So, AD is a link. BADEC is the best order. Answer Choice (1)