Para Jumbles Questions for CAT

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Adding a single day every fourth year is the simple fix, and for a long stretch of European history that was the entire rule.
2. It overcorrects a little, so the calendar slid by roughly three days every four centuries until a second rule was brought in to take them back.
3. That rule drops the leap day in three century years out of every four, which is why the year 1900 had no twenty-ninth of February at all.
4. A year is not a whole number of days, and the extra quarter of a day left over at the end has to be put somewhere.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

1. However, recent studies have shown a correlation between regular exercise and improved mental health.

2. Exercise has long been recognized as a key component of maintaining physical health.

3. In addition to the physical benefits, exercise can also have a positive impact on mental well-being.

4. This is particularly important in today's fast-paced and stressful society.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. To make a passion is not to invent a feeling whole cloth, to conjure something out of nothing.
2. Wit is measured not by “mere jests” or by the demonstration of one’s cleverness at the expense of others.
3. In wit begins criticism, but there is nothing sneering or pushy or pretentious or doctrinaire about it.
4. It is measured by the ability to “move passions” and to “make passions.”

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. A joiner with no training in astronomy eventually built one, and the sea began to claim far fewer ships for being lost.
2. The problem was therefore to carry an accurate clock across an ocean, through damp, salt and months of constant motion.
3. For centuries a navigator could work out how far north or south his ship had come by measuring the sun, but had no dependable way of knowing how far east or west.
4. The missing measurement, longitude, is really a question about time, because the difference between local noon and the hour at a home port converts directly into distance around the globe.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. It was a guarantee instead, a mark saying that somebody powerful enough to hang a forger stood behind the weight of the metal.
2. The head stamped on a coin was never a portrait in the ordinary sense, since almost nobody who handled the coin had ever seen the person on it.
3. That is why clipping a sliver from the edge of a coin was punished so much more harshly than stealing a coin outright.
4. The difference is that a thief took the money out of one pocket, while a clipper quietly damaged the promise on which every coin in the country was passing from hand to hand.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

1. If the waves don’t line up, the peaks and troughs cancel each other out, destroying coherence, and you won’t see anything odd.
2. If you want to see strange quantum effects, waves all have to line up, so that the peaks and troughs coincide.
3. When you’re dealing only with a single particle’s wave, on the other hand, it’s easy to keep it ‘in tune’ - it has to line up only with itself.
4. Physicists call this property coherence: it's rather like musical notes being in tune.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Opening preparation in the professional game is less a matter of knowing moves than of choosing where in a known forest to leave the path.
2. The chosen point is valuable only once, because the moment a novelty is played it joins the databases and becomes part of the forest it was meant to escape.
3. The months of sitting on it are invisible in the score table, and this is the part of professional chess no spectator sees, a win settled by a decision taken long before either player sat down.
4. A resource that expires on first use has to be spent at a moment worth the expense, which is why a player will sit on one for months and then give it to a single game.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The wheat a thatcher wants is not the wheat a farmer wants, and the two have been drifting apart since varieties were first bred deliberately for yield.
2. The result is a small trade in old varieties grown badly on purpose, cut with the binders that combine replaced and threshed in a way that leaves the stem alone.
3. That shortened stem also goes through a combine harvester in pieces, while thatching straw has to come off the field long, whole and lying the same way.
4. That breeding put the plant's effort into the ear and took it out of the stem, which is exactly the half of the plant a roof is made of.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. An award of enclosure gave a man his land in one block and also gave him a bill, since the hedge, the ditch and the gate around it were his to pay for within the year.
2. That bill fell hardest on the small proprietor, who ended up holding a legal title he could not afford to fence and sold it to the neighbour who could.
3. That reversal is common enough in a landscape, where what is loved is seldom what it was made for and a boundary can change sides so completely that the people who defend it now stand where the dispossessed once stood.
4. The quickthorn those neighbours planted is now the most loved thing in the landscape, thick with nesting birds and defended by people who would be appalled by what it was put there to do.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The usual remedy is to stop arguing about the numbers and build upwards, importing clean soil into raised beds and leaving whatever lies beneath sealed under membrane and path.
2. Groups taking it on are told to test the soil, and the results come back with numbers for lead and for hydrocarbons that few volunteers are equipped to read.
3. Much of the land handed over for community growing was given up by something else first, a goods yard, a gasworks or a row of garages.
4. That remedy costs money a new group rarely has, so the beds arrive one at a time and what looked like a solution becomes a decade of fundraising.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Nothing in that arrangement required the bird to adapt, which is why it spread through cities without any of the changes a new habitat is supposed to demand.
2. A city offers it the same two things in a rearranged order, a ledge on a tall building and a food supply that arrives in wrappers rather than in ears.
3. The feral pigeon is descended from a bird that nested on sea cliffs and flew inland to feed on grain in the fields behind them.
4. Calling the bird an invader of the city therefore gets the story backwards, because a creature that had to change nothing was never moving into anything new.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. That requirement makes rescue capacity a fact about the community rather than about the equipment, and it fails quietly when the cottages near the harbour become holiday lets.
2. The failure is invisible for a long time, because a station keeps its boat, its funding and its name for years after the people who would have run down the hill have moved somewhere they can afford.
3. A lifeboat is useless without a crew that can be on the slipway in minutes, which means the crew has to live in the village where the boat is kept.
4. The annual report will still count the boat, since a hull can be counted and a willingness to run down that hill at two in the morning cannot.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The railway then loses the traffic, the traffic loses the railway, and both losses are filed as evidence that nobody wants to send goods by rail any more.
2. A shipper told that his wagons will move at two in the morning, behind anything that happens to be delayed, will eventually put the load on a lorry and stop asking.
3. The timetable settles the conflict by treating the freight as the flexible party, slotting it into whatever gaps the passenger service leaves and standing it aside whenever that service runs late.
4. A mixed railway has to sell the same hour twice, once to a passenger train that must run to the minute and once to a freight train that merely has to arrive by morning.

The following statements can be rearranged into a coherent paragraph. Choose the option that gives the correct order. P) After that is done, all the little earthen ridges that form the raised borders of each of the rectangular plots into which the field is divided, and that are necessary for retaining the sheet of water which is periodically flooded over the rice, must be repaired and trimmed. Q) It requires no slight labour to convert such an apparently intractable material into a smooth sheet of soft mud, eight inches deep. R) As soon as the heavier rains had softened the hard soil of the rice field, baked, where not sandy, by the tropical sun until it became like stone, the work of ploughing and preparing the land for the paddy crop was one that permitted little or no intermission. S) Every morning the men carried their little ploughs on their shoulders, and yoking a couple of buffaloes to each of them, spent many hours in guiding the blunt plough backwards and forwards through the soil, overgrown since the last crop by a covering of grass.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The asymmetry is not a subtle one: the side that does the proposing, in the algorithm that made these procedures famous, ends up with the best stable partner available to it, and the side that waits to be proposed to ends up with the worst, a result that lives in the proof rather than in the brochure.
2. Stability, however, is a property of the outcome and says nothing whatever about how the gains from it are divided, so a procedure can be flawless on that measure while being systematically kinder to one side of the market than to the other.
3. The matching procedures now used to pair students with schools and junior doctors with hospitals are generally presented as machinery for producing a stable outcome, meaning an arrangement in which no two parties would both rather have each other than what the procedure handed them.
4. Which side holds the pen is therefore not an administrative question to be settled once the design has been agreed, but the design itself, and the quiet argument inside every such reform is about who is allowed to ask.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. What the collector was charging for was not the light, which had already been given away, but permission to unload, and the charge was enforceable because a ship in a harbour is a thing that can be held.
2. The lighthouse became the standard illustration of a good that cannot be sold, on the reasoning that a beam falling on the water cannot be withheld from a ship that has not paid for it.
3. A good that cannot be withheld at the point of use can therefore still be charged for wherever the buyer can be held, which is a narrower conclusion than the textbook draws and a more useful one.
4. The illustration survived a long time before anyone checked how the towers had in fact been paid for, and the answer, that dues were collected in harbour from vessels which had made the passage, does not dispose of the argument so much as move it.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The gain has been overwhelming and is not seriously in question, since a collection that cannot be searched is a private pleasure rather than a public instrument.
2. The early cabinet set a narwhal tusk beside a Roman coin and a deformed root, and the arrangement was not confusion but an argument, that the world was a single fabric in which resemblance ran across the categories a later century would treat as walls.
3. When the museum reorganised that fabric by discipline, separating the natural from the antique and both from the merely curious, it gained an order in which any object could be found and lost one in which an object could still surprise.
4. What the reorganisation quietly settled, though, was a prior question about what a collection is for, and it settled it by building the answer into the furniture, where it has been difficult to argue with ever since.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. None of which makes the advice wrong, only insufficient, in the specific sense that a recommendation carries no instrument, and the instruments that would make it followable are held by the office issuing it.
2. Dietary advice issued into that landscape addresses the one actor with the least leverage over it, asking a household to spend more time and more money correcting an outcome that was engineered upstream on its behalf.
3. Those choices are specific and datable: the crops a government agreed to support, the storage it agreed to build and the prices it agreed to guarantee settle, long before any shopper exercises a preference, which calories will be cheap and which will be a small luxury.
4. A food system is usually judged by what it puts on a plate, which is the last and least informative stage of a process whose decisive choices were made in a ministry of agriculture forty years earlier.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. A move can now be scored against a standard nobody is expected to meet, with the result that the language of praise has thinned while the language of error has grown extremely precise, every inaccuracy given a number and a better alternative.
2. The remedy for a game heard as a sequence of avoidable failures is not less analysis but a different order of speech, in which what a move was for is said before what was wrong with it, so that the two people are audible again behind the numbers.
3. Precision of that asymmetrical kind is not neutral, since an audience told continuously what was wrong and only vaguely what was admirable comes to experience the game as a sequence of avoidable failures rather than as a contest between two people.
4. The arrival of engines strong enough to refute any human game did not, as was widely predicted, empty the sport of interest, though it did quietly change what a commentator is able to say about it.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Cameras that follow every player at twenty-five frames a second have made that space legible, and the players valued most highly in some codes are now precisely the ones whose contribution the pencil could never see.
2. For as long as a sport was recorded by a person with a pencil, only the events that ended in something countable could be written down, which made the record of a match a record of its conclusions rather than of its play.
3. Everything that made those conclusions possible, the run that pulled a defender three metres out of position, the pass declined because a better one was two seconds away, happened in the space between the countable events and left no trace whatever.
4. The lesson of the cameras is not that the old judgements were careless but that they were bounded by an instrument, and that what a sport believes about merit has always been a function of what it was able to write down.