CAT 1995VARC Question 29

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Four sentences are marked A, B, C and D. You are required to arrange the sentences in a proper sequence so as to make a coherent paragraph.

A. We can never leave off wondering how that which has ever been should cease to be.
B. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.
C. Nothing else, indeed, seems to be of any consequence; and we become misers in this sense.
D. We try to arrest its few last tottering steps, and to make it linger on the brink of the grave.

Answer & solution

  • A

    ACDB

  • BCDA

  • C

    BDCA

  • D

    ABCD

Solution

B states our attitude towards value of time as we advance in life; C refers to the same by using the phrase 'we become miser in this sense'; and D shows how we become misers. A presents the concluding statement.

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