NinetynineCAT 2018 Slot 1 VARC Q27 Para Jumbles
Question 27 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2018 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
1. The woodland’s canopy receives most of the sunlight that falls on the trees.
2. Swifts do not confine themselves to woodlands, but hunt wherever there are insects in the air.
3. With their streamlined bodies, swifts are agile flyers, ideally adapted to twisting and turning through the air as they chase flying insects – the creatures that form their staple diet.
4. Hundreds of thousands of insects fly in the sunshine up above the canopy, some falling prey to swifts and swallows.
2. Swifts do not confine themselves to woodlands, but hunt wherever there are insects in the air.
3. With their streamlined bodies, swifts are agile flyers, ideally adapted to twisting and turning through the air as they chase flying insects – the creatures that form their staple diet.
4. Hundreds of thousands of insects fly in the sunshine up above the canopy, some falling prey to swifts and swallows.
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Answer: 1432 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- Sentence 1 sets the scene: the canopy gets most of the sunlight.
- Sentence 4 follows: insects fly in the sunshine above the canopy, some falling prey to swifts and swallows.
- Sentence 3 then describes the swifts introduced in 4 (streamlined bodies, insects as their staple diet), and 2 widens the picture: they hunt wherever there are insects, not only over woodland.