Sentences Rearrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The coherent order is (ii), (i), (iv), (iii).

The narrator first finds the drawing room shut, with unfamiliar voices behind the door (ii). That explains why they could not bring themselves to knock (i). Not wanting to go in, they decide to wander down the passage instead (iv), and the passage, dark for a bit, opens into a bright kitchen (iii). Each sentence supplies the reason or setting for the next.

Starting with (iv) or (iii) puts the walk down the passage before the reason for it. Starting with (i) has the narrator unable to knock before any door has been mentioned, and in that order the passage and kitchen arrive before the decision to wander down the passage.

Answer: D

The coherent order is S \(\to\) P \(\to\) R \(\to\) Q.

S introduces the topic, the news of gold found in Kolar a hundred years ago. P follows with the reaction, people rushing towards the city. R gives their belief that they would get rich easily, and Q, opening with 'However', contrasts that belief with the hardships ahead.

Options starting with P or Q cannot be right, because both refer to 'the city' and 'gold' before S has introduced them. S \(\to\) Q puts the contrasting 'However' before anyone has acted or hoped.

Answer: C

The third sentence is 3.

The connecting words give the order. Sentence 1 states the need: money had to be sent to the parents. Sentence 4, opening with 'However', states the obstacle: there was no money at hand. Sentence 3, opening with 'Therefore', gives the response: a trip to the bank to withdraw money. Sentence 2, 'After that', ends the story at the post office, where the money is sent.

So the paragraph runs 1, 4, 3, 2. Sentence 1 comes first, sentence 4 second, sentence 3 third and sentence 2 fourth. 'However' cannot follow 'Therefore' here, and 'After that' needs an earlier event to follow, which is why sentence 3 is the third.

Answer: B

The logical order is D C E B A.

D introduces the topic: coal is used mainly for electricity. C then turns to tax expenditures with 'However, coal was estimated to be a relatively small recipient ... in FY 2010,' and E completes that same sentence with the figure, '$561 million in FY 2010, down from $3.3 billion in FY 2007'. B explains what the large FY 2007 figure was (the refined coal tax credit), and A explains why it fell: the provisions were not available after 2007.

C ends with a comma and E begins in mid-sentence, so C must be followed directly by E; only option b keeps them together in the right order.

Answer: B

The correct sequence is cdaeb.

1. c: Initially, the monsoon was scarce and water tanks were dry. ('Initially' opens the story.)
2. d: So farmers couldn't sow grains. (The consequence.)
3. a: People feared that a famine might hit. (The fear that follows.)
4. e: Farmers were anxiously waiting for the progress of the monsoon.
5. b: However the monsoon turned out to be more than expected. ('However' marks the turn and ends the story.)

'cdbea' puts the happy turn in the middle, before the fear of famine. 'abdec' and 'bedca' do not open with 'Initially' and break the cause-and-effect chain.