Paragraph Formation - Questions

C, B, D, A

A, B, C, D

A, D, C, B

C, D, A, B

Correct Answer : A, D, C, B

D logically follows A with ‘the Great Depression and the New Deal’ being the topics of introduction. C marks the beginning of the next clause which is logically followed by ii. Option (c) is thus the correct choice. Option (a) can be ruled out easily since the sentence cannot end with A. Option (b) is incorrect since iii and iv cannot come together (too many ‘and’s). Option (d) looks correct but it is not the right sequence because of ‘same’. The sentence is ambiguous since ‘same’ can refer to any of the three things mentioned before i.e. the Great Depression, New Deal and America’s still influential response

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A : ‘It’s a tricky business’, says Allan H. Meltzer, an economist at Carnegie mellon University and a former economic adviser to President Reagan.

B : Some policy- makers are focused on staving off the opposite problem- deflation, or falling prices, as demand weakens to the point that goods pile up without buyers, sending prices down and reducing the incentive for businesses to invest.

C : That could shrink demand further and perhaps even deliver the sort of downward spiral that pinned Japan in the weeds of stagnant growth during the 1990s.

D : “There’s no math model that tells us when to do it or how.”

E : But that, as most economists see it, is a worry for another day.

A B C E D

A C D E B

B C D E A

A D E B C

Correct Answer : Option (D) : A D E B C

Explanation :

We follow paragraph formation as :

Clearly A has to be followed by D as D completes what Allan H. Meltzer was mentioning in A. Also B has to be followed by C as ‘that could shrink demand further’ is the result of what is happening in B.Thus , required sequence is A D E B C.

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A : A famous Japanese rock garden is at Ryoan-ji in North West Kyoto, Japan.

B : The rocks of various sizes are arranged on small white pebbles in five groups, each comprising five, two, three, two, and three rocks.

C : The garden is 30 meters long from East to West and 10 meters from North to South.

D : The garden contains 15 rocks arranged on the surface of white pebbles in such a manner that visitors can see only 14 of them at once, from whichever angle the garden is viewed.

E : There are no trees, just 15 irregularly shaped rocks of varying sizes, some surrounded by moss, arranged in a bed of white gravel/sand that is raked every day.

A C E B D

C A E D B

D E A B C

B A D E C

Correct Answer : Option (A) : A C E B D

Explanation : The passage is about the famous rock garden Ryoan-ji in Japan (A). The dimensions of the garden are then given (30 m long from East to West and 10 m from North to South). (C) There is a description of the garden. It has no trees only 15 irregularly shaped rocks in a specific arrangement (E). Further details of the rocks arrangement are give rocks (B) The interesting part is that only 14 can be viewed at a time. (D) The description gets more detailed as we move along. It ends with a telling conclusion.

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A : The operation of last week was as dramatic as the conceptualization of the gigantic statue of 350 tons.

B : The giant monolithic statue of Buddha was salvaged from the Hussainsagar lake.

C : The project was the brainchild and magnificent obsession of late N.T. Rama Rao.

D : It went down in the lake in 1990, when it was being transported to the Rock of Gibraltar, its intended seat.

A C B D

B C D A

B D A C

B A C D

Correct Answer : Option (C) : B D A C

Explanation : B D is the key. Passage must begin with B as it introduces salvaged ‘giant statue of Buddha,’ it cannot begin with A, C, D with their ‘The operation of last week’, ‘The project’ and ‘It went down’ respectively. They only advance the argument introduced by B. D should obviously follow B as D tells when the ‘giant statue’ of Buddha ‘went down in the lake’, A should follow D which tells the ‘operation’ (of salvaging the statue) was ‘dramatic’, C should follow A and conclude the passage telling whose ‘obsession’ the project (of salvaging) was. Option (a): passage wrongly begins with A instead of B whereas A should follow D which in turn should follow B after D has told when the ‘giant statue’ of Buddha ‘went down in the lake,’ A calls the ‘operation (of salvaging the statue) was dramatic’ and so on. Option (b): passage correctly begins with B but C wrongly follows it whereas C should follow A and conclude the passage, after A calls the ‘operation’ (of salvaging the statue) ‘dramatic’ C tells whose ‘brainchild’ the ‘project’ was. Option (d): passage correctly begins with B but A wrongly follows B whereas A should follow D which in turn should follow B, after D has told when the statue ‘went down in the lake’ A calls the ‘operation’ ‘dramatic’ and so on. Except (c) other options are wrong.