Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last…
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
S1. Machinery is like a snake-hole which may contain from one to a hundred snakes.
A. Honest physicians will tell you that where means of artificial locomotion have increased, the health of the people has suffered.
B. Where there is machinery, there are large cities.
C. English villages do not boast of any of these things.
D. Where there are large cities, there are cars, buses, and electric lights.
S6. I cannot recall a single good point in connection with machinery.
- A.
BDAC
- B.
BDCA
- C.
ABCD
- D.
ACBD
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Correct answer: A
The opening sentence S1 introduces 'machinery'. Sentence B continues this idea directly: 'Where there is machinery, there are large cities.' This makes B the natural first link after S1.
B ends with 'large cities', and D opens with 'Where there are large cities, there are cars, buses, and electric lights.' This repetition of 'large cities' forms a mandatory B-D link.
D mentions 'cars, buses, and electric lights' (means of artificial locomotion). A picks this up: 'Honest physicians will tell you that where means of artificial locomotion have increased, the health of the people has suffered.' So A follows D.
C then concludes the body: 'English villages do not boast of any of these things' - 'these things' refers to the machinery, cities, cars and lights mentioned in B, D and A. C leads naturally into the final sentence S6.
Therefore the correct sequence is S1-B-D-A-C-S6, i.e. BDAC.