Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow…
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Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate option.
“Let’s go! We are going to be late!” shouted Glen gleefully as he tightened his schoolbag on his back. Three other faces broke into a smile upon hearing his words. They could not wait to soak their feet in the water and perhaps catch a small fish or two, just for kicks. They were clearly not heading towards where they should be — school. The cold imposing white building became smaller and smaller. Their little hearts grew braver by the minute. They knew exactly where to go.
The canal was huge but that morning, there was only a small lazy stream of dirty water in it. With great gusto, Glen, the leader of the pack, hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain. In the process, he got himself very dirty, but the excitement of truancy was too great to be bothered by some loose buttons and tears in his shirt.
In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him. Soon, screams and laughter of delight reverberated into the air but no one else could hear them for they had chosen a canal that was far from anyone. Glen spied many tiny fish darting to and fro in the murky water. They had no economical value and were practically worthless but nevertheless, the thrill of catching them bare-handed was priceless. Glen raced after an extra fat one. He plunged his hands to grab it only to have it slip between the cracks of his fingers.
Arrange these sentences as per the sequence in which they occur in the passage :
A. Glen climbed down the huge monsoon drain.
B. Soon, his friends joined Glen at the canal.
C. Glen climbed over the railings with excitement.
D. The boys caught fish in the dirty water.
- A.
C -> A -> B -> D
- B.
D -> C -> B -> A
- C.
B -> A -> D -> C
- D.
A -> C -> D -> B
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Correct answer: A
Concept: In a narrative-sequencing (para-jumble) question, the correct order of events is fixed by the passage's own textual anchors — action verbs, connectives, and time markers such as “in a fraction of seconds” — not by guessing a plausible story order.
The sentence “Glen … hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain” names both actions in that order: climbing over the railings (C) comes before climbing down the drain (A).
The next paragraph opens with “In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him”, which anchors the friends' arrival (B) to right after Glen's descent, i.e. after A.
The passage then describes the boys' shared thrill of trying to catch fish bare-handed in the canal — Glen's own attempt at an extra fat one, which slips through his fingers, exemplifies it — placing this fish-catching episode (D) as the final event, after the friends have joined.
Chaining these anchors in the order the passage states them gives C, then A, then B, then D.
Cross-check against the same anchors, the other orderings each break at least one of them:
D → C → B → A places the fish-catching before anyone even reaches the railings, reversing the passage's actual sequence.
B → A → D → C has the friends joining before Glen climbs the railings, though the passage introduces Glen's solo climb first.
A → C → D → B has Glen climbing down the drain before climbing over the railings, but the source sentence names the railings first.
Only C → A → B → D follows every anchor in the order the passage states them, so it is the correct sequence.