Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. What was supposed to be a holiday of a lifetime turned into a dangerous experience for 1,300 passengers on a cruise ship off the coast of Norway.
B. The Norwegian Government decided to evacuate the passengers with the help of helicopters.
C. The ship broke down in rough seas and high-speed winds caused it to rock heavily from side to side.
D. From the first 371 evacuated passengers, 17 had to be taken to hospital.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. ACBD.
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Concept/Grammar rules |
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The first sentence always introduces a topic and is independent in its meaning.
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Statement A should be the first sentence as it introduces the theme of the passage i.e. ‘dangerous experience’. After A, statement C should be the second sentence, as it throws light on how it turned into a dangerous experience. The two remaining sentences must have a logical sequence to them. As we can see, sentence B mentions the evacuation of passengers and sentence D gives further details of the evacuated passengers.
Hence, ‘ACBD’ is the correct answer. |
Evacuate: remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place. |