PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

JUMBLED SENTENCES

PREPARATORY SET-93 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): 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 fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions below.

(A)  The system is located 31 light-years away in the constellation Hydra. In February, TESS cameras caught the star dimming slightly every 3.9 days, revealing the presence of a transiting exoplanets — a world beyond our solar system — that passes across the face of its star during every orbit and briefly dims the star’s light.

(B)  A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the star’s habitable zone. If made of rock, this planet may be around twice Earth’s size. The new worlds orbit a star named GJ 357, an M-type dwarf about one-third the Sun’s mass and size and about 40% cooler that our star.

(C)  “In a way, these planets were hiding in measurements made at numerous observatories over many years,” said Rafael Luque, a doctoral student at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) on Tenerife who led the discovery team. “It took TESS to point us to an interesting star where we could uncover them.”

(D)  But while researchers were looking at ground based data to confirm the existence of the hot Earth, they uncovered two additional worlds. The farthest-known planet, named GJ 357 d, is especially intriguing.

(E)   “We describe GJ 357 b as a ‘hot Earth,’” explains co-author Enrich Pallé, an astrophysicist at the IAC and Luque’s doctoral supervisor. “Although it cannot host life, it is noteworthy as the third-nearest transiting exoplanets known to date and one of the best rocky planets we have for measuring the composition of any atmosphere it may possess.”

(F)    The transits TESS observed belong to GJ 357 b. A planet about 22% larger than Earth. It orbits 11 times closer to its star than Mercury does our Sun. This gives it an equilibrium temperature – calculated without accounting for the additional warming effects of a possible atmosphere – of around 490 degrees Fahrenheit (254 degrees Celsius).

Question No : 1

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

(1) (E)-(B)       

(2) (B)-(C)       

(3) (A)-(B)       

(4) (C)–(F)       

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Which of the following will be LAST sentence after rearrangement?

(1) (D)

(2) (A)

(3) (F)     

(4) (E)    

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Which of the following will be FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

(1) (D)

(2) E    

(3) F    

(4) (A) 

(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