CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1999
Question . 108
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. Picture a termite colony, occupying a tall mud hump on an African plain.
A. Hungry predators often invade the colony and unsettle the balance.
B. The colony flourishes only if the portion of soldiers to workers remain roughly the same, so that the queen and the workers can be protected by the soldiers, and the queen and the soldiers can be serviced by workers.
C. But its fortunes are presently restored, because the immobile queen walled in well below ground level, lays eggs not only large enough numbers, but also in the varying proportions required.
D. The hump is alive with worker termites and solider termites going about their distinct kind of business.
6. How can we account for her mysterious ability to respond like this to events on the distant surface.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(b) Sentence D picturises the termite colony mentioned in sentence number 1 and thus naturally follows it. This is followed by B which also explains a little bit about the colony and then is followed by A and lastly by C, which is linked to A through the restoration of balance that had been unsettled in sentence A.