CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1999
Question . 110
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. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major threats to the survival of Beluga whale.
A. With these. hunters could approach belugas within hunting range and profit from its inner skin and blubber.
B. To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learned to drive to the ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 minutes, by which time the confused predator has left.
C. Today however, even with much more powerful engines, it is difficult to come close because the whales seem to disappear suddenly just when you thought you had them in your sights.
D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930’s. one came across 4 and 8 HP motors.
6. Belugas seem to have used their well- known sensitivity to noise to evolve an ‘avoidance’ strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(a) Sentence D explains the kind of outboard engines mentioned in sentence number 1 and thus logically follows sentence number 1. This is followed by A, which has explained why these motors are a major threat and then by C, which talks of the situation today. The last part of the logical sequence is B, which explains why the Belugas cannot be found even with outboard motors having more powerful engines.