CAT Questions | CAT Sentence Rearrangement

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Question 5: A.The oldest fossil grasses are just 70 million years old, although grass may have evolved a bit earlier than that.

B. There have been land plants for 465 million years, yet there were no flowers for over two-thirds of that time.

C. The equally-familiar grasses appeared even more recently.

D. Flowering plants only appeared in the middle of the dinosaur era.

1. DCBA
2. BCAD
3. CADB
4. BDCA

Explanatory Answer

Method of solving this CAT Question from Sentence Rearrangement:

Sentences B and D talk of flowers and flowering plants. Sentence B talks of how land plants existed without flowers for several millions of years. Sentence D talks of when flowering plants appeared. It is clear D follows B.

Sentence C speaks of “equally familiar grasses�. So obviously, some other example- in this case, flowering plants- precedes this.

Sentences A and C talk of the evolution of grasses. A follows C.

The question is " Arrange the sentences in the correct order "
The order is BDCA

Hence, the answer is BDCA

Choice D is the correct answer.