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Directions: In each of the questions given below, each sentence is labelled with a letter. From the given choices, choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph.
  1. The responsible citizen helped to foil the plan of a hijack.
  2. The deep pockets of his leather jacket contained what had been feared!
  3. A person called up the airport and gave a message.
  4. All the passengers were carefully frisked, and one of them was asked to step aside.

Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • badc
  • cdba
  • dacb
  • cdab
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The Correct Option is B

Approach Solution - 1

Stories like this one usually follow a trigger, a response, a discovery, and a conclusion, so it helps to sort the four sentences into those four roles first.

The trigger has to be the phone call to the airport, since every other sentence in the paragraph only makes sense as something that happens because of that call. The response to a warning call about a hijack would naturally be a search, which matches the frisking of passengers and one being asked to step aside. The discovery comes next: searching that one passenger's jacket pockets turns up "what had been feared," meaning whatever the caller had warned about. The conclusion wraps up the story by crediting the person who made the call as the "responsible citizen" who helped foil the hijack, since "helped to foil" is a summary statement that only makes sense after the plan has actually been stopped.

Sorting the sentences into trigger, response, discovery, and conclusion gives the call, the frisking, the pocket discovery, and the credit to the citizen, in that order.

So, the correct answer is cdba.

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Approach Solution -2

A different way to solve this is to follow only the pronouns and referring phrases from one sentence to the next, setting aside the full story for a moment.

  1. Option "dacb": d opens with "all the passengers were carefully frisked," but nothing earlier has given a reason for a search, so this sentence has no signal to attach to at the very start.
  2. Option "badc": b opens with "his leather jacket," and the pronoun "his" needs a specific person already singled out. No such person has been named yet at this position, so the pronoun has nothing to point to.
  3. Option "cdab": c opens the chain cleanly with the phone call, and d's "one of them was asked to step aside" links back to "all the passengers" in d itself, fine so far. But a's "the responsible citizen" is placed next, and "helped to foil the plan" is a summary phrase that needs the discovery in b to have already happened, which it has not at this point.
  4. Option "cdba": c opens with no backward signal needed. d's "one of them was asked to step aside" follows as the airport's response to the call. b's "his" now correctly links back to that one passenger singled out in d. a's "the responsible citizen" links back to the person who made the call in c, and "helped to foil" now correctly follows the discovery b just revealed.

Chaining only the pronouns "his," "one of them," and "the responsible citizen" back to their sources confirms the same order.

So, the correct answer is cdba.

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