CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2003
Question . 72
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. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies – sent at 1 : 15 a.m., 2 : 59 a.m., 3 : 23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learnt to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.
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(c) A is the introduction to the passage, which talks about the author’s journey to Princeton University to see the future leaders of his country. In D the author states that the faculty members of the university gave him the name of some articulate students, to whom he sent e-mails. B states that the replies to his e-mails would come at really odd hours of the morning. In C the author reports about a senior student who went to bed at around two and woke up every morning at seven. E continues with C in which the senior would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself and then in her sleep would dream about the problem which might be found solved when she awoke.