Question

Arrange sentences 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to form a logical sequence. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the four given choices.

1. Seen through Bond's eyes, the morning sun comes 'shouting over the rooftops', while the whistling-thrush is 'Fred Astaire dancing in top hat and tails'.
2. But they don't matter.
3. You can feel how precious this world, with its mountains and valleys, rivers and cascades, animals, birds, insects and plants, is to the author.
4. When Bond describes a destination it ceases to be a place on the map and becomes a beautiful portrait of life itself.
5. As is inevitable with an anthology containing such a vast body of work, there is some overlapping of material and several typos.

• A. 45231
• B. 52314
• C. 41235
• D. 54231

Hint:

Find the sentence that best opens the passage, then trace the pronoun 'they' to the next line.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Para jumble questions are solved by finding the sentence that best opens the passage, then tracing how each following sentence answers or continues the idea in the one before it, using linking words and pronouns as clues.

1. Sentence 5: "As is inevitable with an anthology containing such a vast body of work, there is some overlapping of material and several typos." This sentence stands alone well as an opener, since it introduces the anthology being reviewed and mentions a small, expected flaw, a common way to start balanced writing about a large body of work.
2. Sentence 2: "But they don't matter." The word "they" clearly ties back to the "overlapping" and "typos" from sentence 5, and "but" signals a contrast, brushing those flaws aside. This can only make sense placed right after sentence 5.
3. Sentence 3: "You can feel how precious this world... is to the author." After saying the small flaws do not matter, the writer needs to explain what does matter, and this sentence shifts the focus to the richness of the world the author creates, a natural next step after the dismissal in sentence 2.
4. Sentence 1: "Seen through Bond's eyes, the morning sun comes 'shouting over the rooftops'..." This sentence backs up the claim in sentence 3 with a specific, vivid example of the author's imagery, so it fits right after sentence 3, which sets up the general idea that sentence 1 then illustrates.
5. Sentence 4: "When Bond describes a destination it ceases to be a place on the map and becomes a beautiful portrait of life itself." This line reads like a closing thought, generalizing the effect shown by the earlier vivid examples, making it the natural final sentence of the passage.

Tracing the pronoun links and the shift from admitting a flaw to praising the writing gives the order 5, 2, 3, 1, 4.

Let's summarize:

• Start with the sentence that introduces the topic and admits a small flaw, sentence 5.
• Follow the pronoun "they" to link it directly to sentence 2, then trace the shift to praise across sentences 3, 1, and 4.

The correct order is 5-2-3-1-4, so the answer is option (b).