Swifts and Insects

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC · Medium · Verbal Ability

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer:

  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.
Answer

1432

Explanation

1 introduces the woodland's canopy. 4 links canopy to insects flying above it and being preyed upon by swifts. 3 describes swifts' bodies suited for chasing these insects. 2 broadens the scope stating swifts hunt beyond woodlands.

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