Question

Directions: The six sentences below (1 to 6) form one paragraph if put in the right order. Pick the option that gives that order.

1. Employees are seeing organizational leaders who appear to have only their personal interests in sight.
2. All the while, these same leaders appear to be walking away from their failures with multimillion-dollar exit bonuses or millions in forgiven "loans".
3. They are feeling increasingly expendable and disposable, all for the purpose of enriching CEOs and top leaders.
4. Workers are feeling less and less connected with top management.
5. Some corporate leaders are simply losing touch.
6. Those they lead are, understandably, losing confidence and trust in their leaders.

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

Hint:

Start with the sentence that needs no earlier reference, then follow "they" / "these same leaders" / "those they lead" back to the sentence that named that noun.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

This is a paragraph-ordering question built from six sentences about employees and self-interested leaders. The fastest way in is to find the sentence that needs no earlier reference to make sense, and then treat words like "they", "these same leaders" and "those they lead" as arrows pointing to the sentence right before them.

1. Sentence 1: names both employees and leaders on its own, so it opens the paragraph.
2. Sentence 3: "They" matches "Employees" from sentence 1, and the mention of enriching CEOs continues the self-interest idea, so this comes second.
3. Sentence 5: shifts to "Some corporate leaders are simply losing touch", giving the word "leaders" that the next two sentences lean on.
4. Sentence 6: "Those they lead" reaches back to the leaders just named in sentence 5, so it follows directly.
5. Sentence 2: "these same leaders" needs sentence 5 or 6 right before it, so it comes next.
6. Sentence 4: a general closing line about workers feeling disconnected, so it ends the paragraph.

Reading them as 1-3-5-6-2-4 leaves no pronoun without a clear match. This was option 5 in the original five-option paper, the official answer, so once the paper is folded to four options it lands as option 4.

Let's summarize:

• Open with the sentence that names its subjects outright.
• Chase "they", "these same leaders" and "those they lead" back to the nearest matching noun.
• The other folded orders repeat an idea out of place or end on a line that is not a natural closer.

So 1-3-5-6-2-4, option 4 among the folded choices, is correct.