Para Jumble

A. The month was January.

B. On the first morning of the festival the mejhi would be set alight invoking the blessings of Agni, the god of fire.

C. There would be much feasting and merriment during the festival.

D. Each household would build a mejhi a pile of firewood stacked neatly together in their backyard.

E. The Bihu festival was fast approaching.

F. "Let's build a champion mejhi this year." Ricky suggested a few days before the festival.

Sentence A is the beginning whereas sentence F is the last sentence of the para. The middle four sentences are jumbled up. Select the option that gives their correct order forming a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. When I studied Engineering thirty-five years back, I was the only girl in the course.

B. People often ask me how I managed.

C. I could only see boys and more boys everywhere.

D. But when I look back I feel it was not very difficult. D

E. Having a girl in the class was unusual for the boys, and Initially I was the target for a lot of teasing.

F. But over a period of time they became my best friends.

B. They were usually like: 'You must adjust to your new house and in-laws, try to learn how they eat and cook their food, go out of your way to be friendly and helpful to everybody, etc.

C. When I was young, before a girl got married, her mother would give her some words of advice.

D. But along with this, she said something which helped me immensely in later life.

B. It was, properly speaking, rather a cottage than a house-a- tiny cottage of one story, with three windows, looking extraordinarily like a little old hunchback woman with a cap on.

C. The cottage was lost to sight among the mulberry-trees, acacias, and poplars planted by the grandfathers and great grand fathers of its present occupants

D. It had white stucco walls, tiled roof, and a dilapidated chimney.

1. A vacation is looked forward to as a time to relax.

A. But, destiny had other plans for me.

B. I was very excited to go on a vacation to Goa.

C. My bags were packed and I decided to retire early for the night.

D. It is a welcome break from the daily routine which is often monotonous.

6. I fell off the bed and fractured my foot!

A. The species was found to be similar to that grown in Chinese tea gardens.

B. By 1862, the Assam tea industry comprised around 160 gardens.

C. The leaves of the plants were examined and the consequence was something fruitful.

D. Mr. Maniram Dewan was the first Indian tea planter who established the commercial plantation that we know today as the Assam tea.

6. Today the region has grown to become one of the world's largest tea-producing belts.

B. This ensured the soul's return to the body so that the deceased would live happily ever after.

C. Their funerary practices, such as mummification and burial in tombs, were designed to assist the deceased find their way in the after world.

D. The tombs were thus, filled with food, tools, domestic wares treasures-all the necessities of life.

A. It was midday.

B. Voldyrev, a tall country gentleman with a cropped head and prominent eyes, took off his overcoat, mopped his brow with his handkerchief, and went into the government office.

C. "Where can I make an inquiry here?" he said, addressing porter who was bringing a trayful of glasses from the furthest recesses of the office.

D. Voldyrev coughed and went towards the window.

E. "To that one sitting near the window!" said the porter.

indicating with the tray the furthest window.

F. There, at a green table spotted like typhus, was sitting a young man with his hair standing up in four tufts on his head, with a long pimply nose, and a long faded uniform.

C. Many great inventions are initially greeted with ridicule and disbelief.

D. Most people who heard about the first powered flight on December 17, 1903 were excited and impressed.

1. Nicholas Chorier is not a usual photographer.

A. He uses a kite to hoist his camera into the skies and clicks photographs while the camera dangles mid-air.

B. He is a kite aerial photographer.

C. Fascinated, he literally tied his two hobbies, kite flying and photography, together for a living.

D. During a trip to India to make a photo report on kite making, he learnt about this unique style of photography.

6. Today he is one of the most well-known kite aerial photographers in the world.