Para Jumbles - I

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced; form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph

Ques 1.
(A) But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians’only preoccupation.
(B) Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
(C) Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
(D) Houses, in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves.
(E) We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were for the rich.
(a) CDBEA
(b) ECDAB
(c) EDCBA
(d) DECAB

Ques 2.
(A) Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass mootorisation that will one day come to China or India.
(B) But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
(C) In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
(D) That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a Diesel hybrid.
(E) Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30%.
(a) CEDBA
(b) CEBDA
(c) AEDBC
(d) ACEBD

Answers :
(1) (c), (2) (a).