1). If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind…
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1). If you are used to having your stimulation come in from
outside, your mind never develops its own habits of thinking and
reflecting
2). Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed
people’s pain and suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
3). If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
4). Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive tendencies.
- A.
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- B.
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- C.
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- D.
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Correct answer: D
Concept: In sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) questions, look for anchoring clues that fix the relative order of two sentences before you test any full arrangement. One of the most common anchors is how a person's name is introduced — the full name appears once, the first time that person is mentioned, and every later sentence uses only the short form (surname, initials, or a pronoun). So whichever sentence carries the full name must sit ahead of any sentence using only the short form.
Sentence 3 introduces the person by the full name, "Karl Marx".
Sentence 2 refers to the same person only by the short form, "Marx".
By the naming-order rule, sentence 3 must come before sentence 2.
Checking each of the four given sequences against this constraint removes every sequence that places sentence 2 ahead of sentence 3.
Only one of the four sequences keeps sentence 3 ahead of sentence 2.
Cross-check by reading the surviving order as a passage: it opens with the claim that Marx today would call television the opiate of the people, then explains what Marx actually said about religion being the opiate, then extends the point by saying television is even more of an opiate because of its addictive pull, and closes by explaining why constant outside stimulation stops the mind from developing its own habits of thought — each sentence follows naturally from the one before it.
So the correct order is 3-2-4-1.
Why the other sequences fail:
The order 2-1-3-4 opens with sentence 2's short form "Marx" before sentence 3 has introduced the full name "Karl Marx", breaking the naming-order rule at the very first step.
The order 1-4-2-3 also places sentence 2 before sentence 3, so the short form still appears before the full-name introduction; it additionally opens with the "outside stimulation" idea, which has nothing before it to build on at that point.
The order 2-4-3-1 again starts with sentence 2's short form ahead of sentence 3's full-name introduction, so it fails the same naming check right away.