CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2000
Question . 92
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. If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught another lash of the whip.
B. The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.
C. Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.
D. This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivations of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.
E. Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(a) Sentence B is the beginning to the passage telling us about the Spartans, E tells us more about the way they treated their male children who were too weak to become soldiers. C talks about those babies who survived babyhood, D continues with the rigorous military training refer to C, A ends the passage by stating that the children were punished if they were caught stealing.