CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1998
Question . 115
In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.
A. Alex had never been happy with his Indian origins.
B. He set about rectifying this grave injustice by making his house in his own image of a country manor.
C. Fate had been unfair to him; if he had his wish, he would have been a count or an Earl on some English estate, or a medieval monarch in a chateau in France.
D. This illusion of misplaced grandeur, his wife felt, would be Alex’s undoing.
Explanatory Answer
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(c) A tells us that Alex was unhappy with his Indian origin. C shows that Fate was unfair to him, and he wished he could have been a count or a medieval monarch. B says that he tries to correct this injustice by turning his house into a country manor. In D his wife feels that the illusion of misplaced grandeur would pose problems for Alex.