PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

JUMBLED SENTENCES

PREPARATORY SET-21 (OLD PATTERN)

Directions (Qs.1-7): Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked as C is fixed and would fit in the third position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions below.

(A) “There’s a hole in our lives the size of a really good-sized abalone. We miss that,” says Cresalia. The abalone was first harvested by the Native Americans, and later popularized when the first abalone fishery was established in the early 20th century.

(B)  The fishery reached peak popularity during the 1950s and 1960s. Commercial fishers as well as divers from around the world traveled to the California coast to dive into lush kelp forests and pry snails off their rocks.

(C) But as marine heat waves, ocean acidification, habitat loss, and overfishing shrink the red abalone fishery, the sweet delicacy is at risk of permanently losing its food source: the kelp forests.

(D) “For people who think they don’t like fish…it’s amazing to see their eyes just sparkle when they take a bite and go ‘this is absolutely incredible,’” says Joe Cresalia, a recreational diver who lives just north of San Francisco. “And you know before they took the bite, they were almost afraid to take a bite.”

(E) By 1997, too few snails remained to support commercial catches, and the fishery was closed. Only recreational divers like Cresalia were permitted to catch abalone.

(F)  Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sought-after delicacy with a sweet, delicate flavor similar to a sea scallop, say those who’ve tried it

Question No : 1

Which of the following will be LAST sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) A   

(3) F    

(4) E    

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Which of the following will be FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) C   

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Which of the following pairs form two consecutive statements after rearrangement?

(1) A-D           

(2) B-E

(3) A-E

(4) C-D           

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Which of the following will be FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) C   

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Which of the following will be SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) C   

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

Which of the following will be FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) E    

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Which of the following pairs form two consecutive statements after rearrangement?

(1) F-D

(2) B-C

(3) A-E

(4) C-D           

(5) None of these