Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following seven sentences A, B, C, D, E, F and G in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) In other words, floods and droughts are built into the countries monsoonal ecology.
(B) “It pours cats and dogs” they said.
(C) In the remaining 8,660 hours there is hardly any precipitation.
(D) If the rain is not caught and stored, it will be impossible to live in this country.
(E) But most of it pours down in a mere hundred hours.
(F) India gets more rain annually – 1,100 mm, on an average- than any other part of the world.
(G) When the British came to India, they were struck by the amount it rained here.
[WATU 144]