Night Class: English Quiz(Jumbled Paragraph) for IBPS/BOM Exam |

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B),
(C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then
answer the questions given below.

(A)God has managed the amazing feat of being worshiped and invisible at the
same time.

(B) Millions of people might describe him as a white bearded
father figure sitting on a throne in the sky, but none could claim to be an
eyewitness.

(C) Although it doesn’t seem possible to offer a single fact about
the Almighty that would hold up in a court of law, somehow the vast majority of
people believe in God – as many as 96 percent, according to some polls.

(D) This reveals a huge gap between belief and what we call
everyday reality.

(E) We need to heal this gap.

Q1. Which of the following should be the First sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q2. Which of
the following should be the Third sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q3. Which of
the following should be the Fifth sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q4. Which of
the following should be the Fourth sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q5. Which of
the following should be the Second sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following five sentences (A),
(B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and
then answer the questions given below.

(A)This result was all the more astonishing when it was discovered that the
person doing the praying didn’t have to know the patient personally, or even know
their names.

(B) Seriously ill patients in hospitals were divided into groups,
some being prayed for, while others were not.

(D) In all cases, best medical care was still given, yet it became
evident that the prayed-for group seemed to recover better.

(E) Beginning more than twenty years ago, researchers devised
experiments to try to verify whether prayer had any efficacy.

Q6. Which of the following should be the First sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q7. Which of
the following should be the Third sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q8. Which of
the following should be the Fifth sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q9. Which of
the following should be the Fourth sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q10. Which
of the following should be the Second sentence of the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D)
and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer
the questions given below.

(A) A snail’s neurons pick up signals from the outside worlds so slowly, for
example, that events any faster than three seconds would not be perceived.

(B) In other words, if a snail was looking at an apple, and I
quickly reached in and snatched it away, the snail would not be able to detect
my hand.

(D) In the animal kingdom some nervous systems are much faster
than ours and others much slower.

(E) In the same way, quantum flashes are millions of time too
rapid for us to register, so our brains play a trick on us by “seeing” solid
objects that are continuous in time and space, the same way that a movie seems
continuous.

Q11. Which of the following should be the First sentence of the given
paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q12. Which of the following should be the Third sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q13. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q14. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q15. Which of the following should be the Second sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Solutions

S1. Ans.(e)