Previous Year Questions of English 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) Their son, Matthew, a Navy
meteorologist, was assigned there.

(B) Michael Flocco veered into the driveway of his home and dashed
from his truck.

(C) The stocky sheet-metal worker had rushed back from a
construction site nearby to join his wife, Sheila, after learning of the
terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

(D) Michael found Sheila sitting on the couch sobbing.

(E) It was almost 10:30 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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) Handsome in his tuxedo.

(B) Lanky at his high school prom.

(D) At ten-smiling in his yellow soccer jersey.

(E) Throughout the TV replays of the collapsing Trade Towers,
Michael’s glance shifted from one framed photo to the next.

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) Matthew was always the kid with his
head in the clouds, the stars, the sky.

(B) With high marks, and great moves on the sports field, his
dream had been an athletic scholarship, but an injured elbow and a bad rotator
cuff got in the way.

(D) By fourth standard, Matthew was bored with cartoons on TV, and
his dad often returned from work to find him lying on the floor, absorbed in
the blue and red curves of the cold fronts and low-pressure systems swirling
across the weather channel maps.

(E) He hoped to go to college, even though the family’s savings
would not stretch far.

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.(d)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be BECAD. Sentence (B)
is starting sentence because it introduces the topic/paragraph.

S2. Ans.(c)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be BECAD.

S3. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be BECAD.

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be BECAD.

S5. Ans.(e)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be BECAD. Sentence (E)
is second because it carries forward new information relevant to the first
sentence.

S6. Ans.(a)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be ECDBA.

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be ECDBA.

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be ECDBA.

S9. Ans.(c)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences should be ECDBA.

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences
should be ECDBA.

S11. Ans.(b)

Sol. The correct logical order of the sentences
should be DAEBC