QOTD-English-Parajumble Question

2019-08-17 | Team PendulumEdu

Directions: Rearrange the given four sentences A, B, C, D in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and indicate the correct sequence below.

Good health requires the commitment of many, from lawmakers to lunch makers.
These include being more active, eating healthy, and avoiding tobacco and harmful use of alcohol.
The World Health Organization provides the advice and evidence needed for people to lead healthy lives.
And there are steps each of us can take to promote and protect health.

Options:

A. CADB

B. ABDC

C. BDCA

D. DCAB

Solution:

The paragraph highlights WHO’s advice to people on being healthy.

The sentence that highlights the central theme is C, which makes it an obvious choice for the first line of the paragraph.

A follows C as it mentions what is the major requirement of good health – commitment.

Connecting words: people (C) and lawmakers to lunch makers (A).

Sentences B and D are interconnected as one mentions that steps should be taken to promote health while the other mentions what steps should exactly be taken. Understanding these sentences in this order, we see that D follows A and B follows D.

Connecting words: health (A and D).

Connecting words: steps (D) and These include (B).

Hence, A is the correct answer.

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