Question

DIRECTIONS for questions 33 to 36: Choose the option that correctly un-scrambles the paragraphs below.

1. Individuals and firms moving into a new and unfamiliar field of activity are increasingly using information resources provided over the Internet.
2. The economic importance of a strong, viable business sector, especially a strong and viable small business sector with its potential for employment and export generation, makes it imperative that government agencies provide encouragement, leadership and effective support.
3. Governments undertake a wide variety of initiatives to achieve these ends and online information provision is one of many such initiatives.
4. The power of the Internet to deliver information and services online offers an opportunity for governments to support businesses and the economies they serve.
5. Many small to medium-size enterprises may turn initially to a government agency for business-related information, in part because they lack the confidence and financial resources to engage private consultants at the initial stages of the planning process.
6. This is an important issue, both for government economic development strategies and to help them meet the rising public expectations of online service provision.

• A. 1-4-3-6-2-5
• B. 4-6-2-3-1-5
• C. 3-6-2-1-5-3
• D. 2-3-6-5-1-4

Hint:

Find the sentence that introduces the general idea first, then follow "This" and "these ends" back to the exact sentence each one refers to.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

A good way to solve this jumble is to move from the broadest statement down to the narrowest, since the passage funnels from a general idea about the Internet to one specific group, small and medium enterprises.

1. Sentence 4: States the broadest idea, that the Internet lets governments support businesses. This has to come first since nothing before it is assumed.
2. Sentence 6: "This is an important issue..." directly names the opportunity from sentence 4 as important, so it must sit right after it.
3. Sentence 2: Explains why supporting small business matters economically, giving the reasoning behind the importance raised in sentence 6.
4. Sentence 3: "Governments undertake a wide variety of initiatives to achieve these ends..." This can only follow sentence 2, since "these ends" are the goals, encouragement, leadership and support, that sentence 2 just listed.
5. Sentence 1: Narrows down to a specific initiative in action: firms and individuals using Internet resources when entering a new field, which is one of the initiatives sentence 3 just mentioned.
6. Sentence 5: Narrows further still, to small and medium enterprises specifically, and gives the reason they turn to government agencies, closing the paragraph on the most specific point.

This general-to-specific funnel gives the order 4-6-2-3-1-5.

Let's summarize:

• Start a jumble by finding the most general sentence with no back-references, which is usually the opener.
• Phrases like "This" and "these ends" must follow the exact idea they are pointing back to.
• The paragraph narrows step by step from all businesses to small business to small and medium enterprises specifically.

The correct order is 4-6-2-3-1-5, option 2.