Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are placed in the first and last positions respectively and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences between the first and last sentences are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange the jumbled sentences in a logical sequence keeping the unity and coherence of the paragraph intact. Choose the correct alternative that best describes the sequence.
S1. The walls were filled with pictures and calendars.
A. "That's Mr. Connin," Mrs. Connin said, standing back from the stove for a second to admire the face with him, "but it don't favor him anymore."
B. He had long hair and a gold circle around his head and he was sawing on a board while some children stood watching him.
C. Bevel turned from Mr. Connin to a coloured picture over the bed of a man wearing a white sheet.
D. There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from.
S2. He was going to ask who that was when the three boys came in again and motioned for him to follow them.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
Correct Answer
DACB
Explanation
After S1 introduces the walls covered with pictures and calendars, Sentence D naturally follows by describing the various photographs on the walls. Sentence A then identifies one of the people in the photographs as Mr. Connin. Sentence C shifts Bevel's attention from Mr. Connin's picture to another coloured picture over the bed. Finally, Sentence B describes that coloured picture in detail, making it a natural continuation of Sentence C. This sequence connects smoothly to S2.
The other options disturb the flow by describing the coloured picture before introducing it or by identifying Mr. Connin after the focus has already shifted to another picture.
Key Points
In para-jumble questions, follow the movement of ideas and references. When a sentence says someone “turned from” one object to another, the first object must have already been introduced, and any descriptive sentence should immediately follow the sentence that introduces it.