JUMBLED SENTENCE QUESTIONS FOR IBPS CLERK MAINS 2017
D.1-5): Rearrange the following six sentences marked as (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
- A) Fossil hunters have dated a tranche of jaw, tooth and skulls, unearthed at different periods since the 1960s, from a cave in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.
- B) This discovery pushes the history of human evolution back to at least 3,00,000 years.
- C) The pair of research papers reported in Nature suggests that science may have grossly underestimated the age of humanity.
- D) These have been proffered as proof of the oldest known humans.
- E) Man’s unrelenting quest to chart out the precise pattern of his ancestry got a lightning jolt of excitement this month.
- F) Until last month, the consensus was that humans were about 2,00,000 years old.
Q.1) Which of the following would be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
a) B
b) D
c) F
d) C
e) E
Q.2) Which of the following would be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
a) F
b) D
c) E
d) A
e) C
Q.3) Which of the following would be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
a) D
b) F
c) B
d) A
e) C
Q.4) Which of the following would be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) B
b) A
c) C
d) F
e) D
5) Which of the following would be the SIXTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) C
b) D
c) B
d) A
e) F
D.6-10): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
- A) Besides Gable and Leigh, the film had Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond and Hattie McDaniel.
- B) During the shooting of the battle sequences, his brother, an agent, brought an English star and introduced her as Scarlett.
- C) Not wishing to lose time, he began to shoot the movie.
- D) She was Vivien Leigh.
- E) Many were called for the audition but not chosen.
- F) Selznick created history in choosing the heroine and tested almost everybody who was anybody in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Q.6) Which of the following would be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) D
c) F
d) E
e) C
Q.7) Which of the following would be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) F
Q.8) Which of the following would be the LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) F
Q.9) Which of the following would be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) D
c) C
d) E
e) F
Q.10) Which of the following would be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
a) A
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) F
D.11-15): In the following questions a sentence is given in five parts. Join these parts in a sequence to find the sentence. The correct order of parts is the answer.
Q.11)
A) The need for unpopular, but necessary, decisions
B) The solution to excessive campaign expenditure and
C) A much too focussed eye on the electoral cycle is
D) Better found in persuading political leaderships to develop
E) Self-discipline and to explain to the people
a) BCDEA
b) CADEB
c) DECAB
d) CDAEB
e) EDACB
Q.12)
A) Show that the Earth’s magnetic field really
B) Did reverse itself 10 million years ago
C) And have used the new method to
D) Researchers have developed an improved method
E) Of identifying magnetic signals in old geological strata
a) EABCD
b) CDAEB
c) DECAB
d) CADEB
e) EDACB
Q.13)
A) The molecules that stimulate taste buds
B) Movements of lips and tongue
C) The function of saliva is to destroy pathogenic bacteria
D) Help in swallowing, serve as a solvent for
E) And aid speech by facilitating
a) EDACB
b) CADEB
c) CABDE
d) CDAEB
e) BCDEA
Q.14)
A) From the law firm Mossack Fonseca
B) Dealing mostly with off-shore entities and bank accounts
C) Containing confidential attorney-client information
D) Of more than 11 million documents
E) The Panama Papers leaks in April last year consisted
a) BCDEA
b) CADEB
c) DECAB
d) CDAEB
e) EDACB
Q.15)
A) And increasing problems on the waste management front
B) Waste bins exclusively for plastic bottles
C) With the growing demand for bottled water
D) The Make Ooty Beautiful campaign has
E) Chipped in with a project to provide
a) BCEAD
b) CADEB
c) DECAB
d) CBDAE
e) EDACB
Answer Key:
- 1) e
- 2) d
- 3) a
- 4) c
- 5) c
- 6) b
- 7) e
- 8) a
- 9) d
- 10) d
- 11) a
- 12) c
- 13) d
- 14) e
- 15) b
