PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

JUMBLED SENTENCES

PREPARATORY SET-99 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 6): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

(A) After a while, three merchants passed by and ridiculed the boy for not letting the old man ride, prompting the boy to get down and letting his father to ride.

(B)  They called them foolish to be walking when they might as well ride, which prompted the father to ask his son to climb up and ride.

(C)  In the end, the father realised that by trying to please everybody, you please nobody.

(D) At the next turnstile, the father and the son came across some women, who criticised the man for making the ‘poor boy’ walk. On hearing this, the father asked his son to climb up behind him.

(E)  One day, a father and son were on their way to market with a donkey which they hoped to sell. As they walked along the highway some travellers laughed loudly at them.

(F)  They had no sooner started out again after listening to the third comment, than a loud shout went up from another company of people on the road, who criticised the duo for being cruel to the donkey.

Question No : 1

Which of the following will be the first sentence after rearrangement?

(1) A   

(2) C   

(3) E    

(4) F    

(5) B

Question No : 2

Which of the following will be the third sentence after rearrangement?

(1) C   

(2) D   

(3) F    

(4) A   

(5) B

Question No : 3

Which of the following will be the fifth sentence after rearrangement?

(1) C   

(2) D   

(3) E    

(4) B    

(5) F

Question No : 4

Which of the following will be the second sentence after rearrangement?

(1) C   

(2) B    

(3) D   

(4) E    

(5) F

Question No : 5

Which of the following will be the sixth sentence after rearrangement?

(1) B    

(2) C   

(3) E    

(4) F    

(5) A

Question No : 6

Which of the following will be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?

(1) A   

(2) B    

(3) C   

(4) D   

(5) E