CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2000
Question . 98
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. Commercially reared chicken can be unusually aggressive, and are often kept in darkened sheds to prevent them pecking at each other.
A. The birds spent far more of their time - up to a third - pecking at the inanimate objects in the pens, in contrast to birds in other pens which spent a lot of time attacking others.
B. In low light conditions, they behave less belligerently, but are more prone to opthalmic disorders and respiratory problems.
C. In an experiment, aggressive head-pecking was all but eliminated among birds in the enriched environment.
D. Altering the birds’ environment, by adding bales of wood-shavings to their pens, can work wonders.
6. Bales could diminish aggressiveness and reduce injuries; they might even improve productivity, since a happy chicken is a productive chicken.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(d) In sentence B the low light conditions refer to the darken sheds in sentence number 1, thus sentence B follows sentence number 1. A logical sequence to it is D and then it is followed by C, which talks about the enriched environment of bales of wood-shavings mentioned in D. The last choice is A which gives the conclusion of adding the bales of wood.