Arrange the following sentences in logical order to form a coherent paragraph.…
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Arrange the following sentences in logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the history of the last 45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particularly India and Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle in their affairs and thereby keep neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington's military alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered the military junta of that country to snuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in Pakistan.
- A.
ACBD
- B.
ABDC
- C.
CBAD
- D.
DCAB
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Correct answer: B
Concept: In a fixed-anchor sentence-rearrangement question, the sentence placed right after the opening anchor must continue its reference chronologically, and the sentence placed right before the closing anchor must supply whatever effect the closing sentence's connecting word (here, "too") points back to; every middle sentence is tested against these two anchors plus the cause-effect chain running between them.
Application: Sentence 1 closes on "the history of the last 45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire", so the very next sentence must pick up that history — sentence A does exactly this, opening with "After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent". Sentence B then generalises from that partition: because of the disunity and ill-will it left between the neighbours, outside powers could meddle in the region. Sentence D gives the concrete case of that meddling — Pakistan drawn into Washington's cold-war military alliance. Sentence C then states the fallout of that alliance: the resulting arms supply emboldened Pakistan's aggression towards India, an external effect. The closing line opens with "Internally too", which only makes sense if the sentence immediately before it already described an external effect of that same arms supply — and that is precisely what sentence C does, so C must sit right before the closing line.
Cross-check: Reading the chain end to end — Pakistan's strategic location, the disunity that invited outside interference, the cold-war alliance that followed, and the arms that alliance brought in — each sentence answers a question the previous one raises, and the last of these four sentences hands the "too" in the closing line exactly the arms-supply reference it needs, confirming the order A-B-D-C.