Arrange the following words in a meaningful order: ( Desire(4), Interest(1),…
2019
Arrange the following words in a meaningful order: ( Desire(4), Interest(1), Paying attention(3), Doing work(2) )

- A.
3,1,4,2
- B.
3,2,1,4
- C.
4,2,1,3
- D.
1,3,4,2
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Correct answer: A
Concept: A “meaningful order” question of this kind is built on a well-known real-world behavioural sequence: an initial trigger draws attention to something, that attention grows into interest, sustained interest deepens into a desire to engage further, and that desire culminates in the action of actually doing the work. This attention → interest → desire → action progression is a long-established, widely used model for describing how engagement with something develops into action (the same structure underlies the classic AIDA behavioural-response sequence), and it is the standard basis for this reasoning-question type.
Application: Map each labelled word onto its stage in that chain (each word keeps its fixed label: Interest = 1, Doing work = 2, Paying attention = 3, Desire = 4):
Paying attention (3): the initial trigger — nothing can be engaged with before it is first noticed.
Interest (1): once attention is drawn, curiosity about the subject develops.
Desire (4): sustained interest deepens into a wanting to engage further.
Doing work (2): the desire culminates in the actual action.
Reading off the labels in this order gives the sequence 3, 1, 4, 2.
Cross-check: This matches the standard attention → interest → desire → action behavioural sequence, and each stage here is the direct trigger for the one after it — no stage can sensibly precede its own cause, so 3, 1, 4, 2 is the internally consistent chain.