What is the correct order of information given below? I. A person with…
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What is the correct order of information given below?
I. A person with cataract sees multiple images.
II. In cataract, the lens hardens and becomes opaque.
III. Smoking results in cataract.
IV. Children can be born with cataract.
Answer: D. II, I, IV, III — Concept A sequencing question set on a passage does not ask which fact matters most, nor which event comes first in real life. It asks in what order the…
- A.
III, I, IV, II
- B.
IV, II, III, I
- C.
I, IV, III, II
- D.
II, I, IV, III
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Correct answer: D
Concept
A sequencing question set on a passage does not ask which fact matters most, nor which event comes first in real life. It asks in what order the passage itself introduces each piece of information, so position in the text is the only criterion. The method is fixed: read each numbered statement, find the one sentence in the passage that carries it, note where that sentence sits, and then arrange the statements by those positions.
Application
Statement II — the lens hardens and becomes opaque. The first paragraph states, "As one starts growing old, the lens of the eye hardens, loses its transparency and becomes opaque." This is the earliest of the four to appear.
Statement I — a person with cataract sees multiple images. Three sentences later, still in the first paragraph: "Sometimes, the cataract patient sees multiple images instead of a single object image." So it follows II.
Statement IV — children can be born with cataract. The second paragraph begins its list of causes with "sometimes, children are born with cataract because of hereditary defect", which places IV after I.
Statement III — smoking results in cataract. Further down that same list the writer adds, "Researchers opine that the smoke inhaled while smoking, carries substances internally damaging the eyes." It is the last of the four to appear.
Statement | Where the passage states it | Place in the text |
|---|---|---|
II — lens hardens and turns opaque | Paragraph 1, sentence 3 | 1st |
I — patient sees multiple images | Paragraph 1, sentence 6 | 2nd |
IV — children born with cataract | Paragraph 2, sentence 3 | 3rd |
III — smoking damages the eyes | Paragraph 2, sentence 6 | 4th |
Cross-check
Read back in the order II, I, IV, III, the four statements reproduce the passage’s own movement: first what physically happens inside the eye, then what the patient experiences, and only then the factors the writer blames for it.
Inside that list of factors the passage puts the hereditary case before smoking, so IV must come before III; any sequence that puts III ahead of IV reverses the text.
Everyday logic is the trap here. A cause such as smoking feels as though it should precede a symptom, but the passage introduces the symptom first, and the question asks for the order of the passage, not the order of nature.
Answer: II, I, IV, III