CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1997
Question . 138
DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.
1. Whenever technology has flowered, it has put man’s language-developing skills into overdrive
A. Technical and technoid terms are spilling into the mainstream almost as fast as junk-mail is slapped into e-mail boxes.
B. The era of computers is no less.
C. From the wheel with its axle to the spinning wheel with its bobbins, to the compact disc and its jewel-box, inventions have trailed new words in their wake.
D. “Cyberslang is huge, but it’s parochial, and we don’t know what will filter into the larger culture” said Tom Dalzell, who wrote the slang dictionary Flappers 2 Rappers.
6. Some slangs already have a pedigree. (a) (b) (c) (d)
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(b) Sentence C is the only which makes sense as the 1st sentence because it is an example of the claim made in sentence 1 thus consolidates it. Following it is B, which gives another category of example for sentence 1 and then is A which explains all this and the last is D, which is linked to sentence 6.