Parajumbles(with options) || Verbal Ability || CAT 2021 || 12 April

Direction: Given below are five statements A, B, C, D, and E, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions that follow.

A) Despite these warnings, the state was unprepared—which Texans realized as soon as the storm swept in.

B) Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm.

C) For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February did not come as a surprise.

D) Equipment froze at power plants, leaving about half of the state’s electricity-generating capacity offline.

E) For decades before that, climate scientists had warned that a warming planet result in weather events like this one.

Direction: Given below are five statements A, B, C, D, and E, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions that follow.

A) Despite these warnings, the state was unprepared—which Texans realized as soon as the storm swept in.

B) Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm.

C) For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February did not come as a surprise.

D) Equipment froze at power plants, leaving about half of the state’s electricity-generating capacity offline.

E) For decades before that, climate scientists had warned that a warming planet result in weather events like this one.

Direction: Given below are five statements A, B, C, D, and E, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions that follow.

A) Despite these warnings, the state was unprepared—which Texans realized as soon as the storm swept in.

B) Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm.

C) For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February did not come as a surprise.

D) Equipment froze at power plants, leaving about half of the state’s electricity-generating capacity offline.

E) For decades before that, climate scientists had warned that a warming planet result in weather events like this one.

Direction: Given below are five statements A, B, C, D, and E, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. Rearrange the statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions that follow.

A) Despite these warnings, the state was unprepared—which Texans realized as soon as the storm swept in.

B) Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm.

C) For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February did not come as a surprise.

D) Equipment froze at power plants, leaving about half of the state’s electricity-generating capacity offline.

E) For decades before that, climate scientists had warned that a warming planet result in weather events like this one.

Direction: Read the following excerpt and answer the questions asked at the end. The answers to the questions should be based on the excerpt.

There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural hazard to life on Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have collided with Earth. If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an ecological catastrophe. The best documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth's history is marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct.

While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared. The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a mass of more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers, Scientists first identified this impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after the impact. This sediment layer is enriched with the rare metal Iridium and other elements that are relatively abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even diluted by the terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this component of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990, geologists had located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.

Direction: Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked D is fixed and would fit in the fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

A) We then curate the submissions and post an image each week on the Instagram handle of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

B) Galange, who works as the photo editor and naturalist at the Foundation, and I noticed an alarming number of images that showcase wild animals in heavily polluted surroundings.

C) In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem.

D) The project invites photographers from across India to submit images that illustrate the impact of garbage on nation’s wild species.

E) Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of wild animals.

F) To highlight this travesty, I and my colleague at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Prachi Galange, conceptualised an Instagram project titled #InOurFilth.

Direction: Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked D is fixed and would fit in the fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

A) We then curate the submissions and post an image each week on the Instagram handle of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

B) Galange, who works as the photo editor and naturalist at the Foundation, and I noticed an alarming number of images that showcase wild animals in heavily polluted surroundings.

C) In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem.

D) The project invites photographers from across India to submit images that illustrate the impact of garbage on nation’s wild species.

E) Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of wild animals.

F) To highlight this travesty, I and my colleague at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Prachi Galange, conceptualised an Instagram project titled #InOurFilth.

Direction: Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked D is fixed and would fit in the fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

A) We then curate the submissions and post an image each week on the Instagram handle of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

B) Galange, who works as the photo editor and naturalist at the Foundation, and I noticed an alarming number of images that showcase wild animals in heavily polluted surroundings.

C) In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem.

D) The project invites photographers from across India to submit images that illustrate the impact of garbage on nation’s wild species.

E) Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of wild animals.

F) To highlight this travesty, I and my colleague at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Prachi Galange, conceptualised an Instagram project titled #InOurFilth.

Direction: Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked D is fixed and would fit in the fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

A) We then curate the submissions and post an image each week on the Instagram handle of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

B) Galange, who works as the photo editor and naturalist at the Foundation, and I noticed an alarming number of images that showcase wild animals in heavily polluted surroundings.

C) In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem.

D) The project invites photographers from across India to submit images that illustrate the impact of garbage on nation’s wild species.

E) Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of wild animals.

F) To highlight this travesty, I and my colleague at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Prachi Galange, conceptualised an Instagram project titled #InOurFilth.

Direction: Given below are six statements A, B, C, D, E and F, which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked D is fixed and would fit in the fourth position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions that follow.

A) We then curate the submissions and post an image each week on the Instagram handle of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

B) Galange, who works as the photo editor and naturalist at the Foundation, and I noticed an alarming number of images that showcase wild animals in heavily polluted surroundings.

C) In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem.

D) The project invites photographers from across India to submit images that illustrate the impact of garbage on nation’s wild species.

E) Thousands of tonnes of untreated and unsegregated waste pollute the country’s land, water and air, while serving as toxic foraging grounds for a plethora of wild animals.

F) To highlight this travesty, I and my colleague at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Prachi Galange, conceptualised an Instagram project titled #InOurFilth.