Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. An environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40 kilograms of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks.
B. A 4.7-metre long whale died on Saturday in the Philippines where it was stranded a day earlier.
C. "It's very disgusting and heartbreaking," he said. "We've done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest amounts of plastic we've seen."
D. "The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach," said Darrell Blatchley, Director of D' Bone Collector Museum Inc.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. BADC.
Explanation:
- Sentence B would be the first sentence of the passage as it introduces the subject i.e. ‘a 4.7 metre long whale’.
- Sentence A would be the next in the sequence as it presents some astonishing facts about the dead whale.
- The Sentence pair 'DC' would be the mandatory pair because the pronoun ‘he’, in sentence C represents Darrell Blatchley who is the director of D’ Bone Collector Museum Inc. mentioned in sentence D.
- This suggests C should follow D immediately as the two statements were said by the same person and are referring to the same issue.
So, the correct set of rearrangement will be BADC. Hence, the chosen option is correct.