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. We circled down.
A. A great wave of smell beat at my face.
B. The sounds of the river tossing and dizzying and teasing its great trash could be heard through the dark now.
C. The track had come down deep as a tunnel.
D. It made the noise of a moving wall, and up it fishes and reptiles and uprooted trees and man's throwaways played and climbed all alike in a splashing like innocence.
S2. We were on the floor of the world.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct Answer
BDAC
Explanation
The paragraph describes a sensory and physical descent into a deep environment, building a narrative path from S1 to S2.
Sentence S1 ("We circled down") sets the action of descending. Part B immediately follows by providing the first sensory detail encountered during this descent—the dark environment and the distant sounds of the tossing river. Part D forms a mandatory pair with B because the pronoun "It" at the start of D directly refers back to the "river" introduced in B, describing the immense noise and items swirling within it.
Part A shifts the sensory experience from sound to smell ("A great wave of smell beat at my face") as the narrators get closer. Part C then characterizes the final stage of the physical pathway ("The track had come down deep as a tunnel"), which logically transitions into the concluding sentence S2 ("We were on the floor of the world").
Key Points
Pronoun-antecedent tracking is the fastest way to solve paragraph jumbles. Spotting that the pronoun "It" in sentence D must refer to the "river" in sentence B creates an inseparable structural link (B-D) that immediately eliminates incorrect sequential choices.