Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. The team is also collecting data on snow depth, weather, and wind speed.
B. Chinese scientists are likely to be the only people to summit the world’s tallest mountain this year as both, China and Nepal canceled the spring climbing season.
C. A team of scientists from China has scaled Mount Everest as a part of a project to re-measure its height.
D. China’s network of satellites is being used in the survey to determine the mountain’s current height and natural resources.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. CADB
- The best way to go about such questions is by either finding out the opening sentence or pairs of sentences.
- Sentence C is an independent and hence the introductory sentence of the given paragraph.
- Sentence C is followed by Sentence A, the definite article 'the' refers to the team mentioned in the previous sentence.
- Sentence D refers to the survey that was mentioned in the previous sentence.
- Sentence D and sentence B is the third and fourth part of the sentence respectively.
The correct paragraph is-
A team of scientists from China has scaled Mount Everest as a part of a project to re-measure its height. The team is also collecting data on snow depth, weather, and wind speed. China’s network of satellites is being used in the survey to determine the mountain’s current height and natural resources. Chinese scientists are likely to be the only people to summit the world’s tallest mountain this year as both, China and Nepal canceled the spring climbing season.