CAT 1999 | Question: 54

Question

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 2.

1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.
   • A. With these, hunters could approach Belugas within hunting range and profit from its inner
   • B. To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learnt to dive to the ocean bottom and stay
   • C. Today, however, even with much more powerful engines, it is difficult to come close, because
   • D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930s, one came across 4 HP and 8 HP
2. Belugas seem to have used their well-known sensitivity to noise to evolve an ‘avoidance’ strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies.
   1. DACB
   2. ACDB
   3. ADCB
   4. DBAC

Answer 1

a) DACB

Sentence 1 talks about "high-power". So, D is a better one to follow it as 4 HP means Horsepower.

Comments

@sresta what about ADCB ?? I think ADCB is also correct ??