The question below comprises four scattered segments of a paragraph. Identify…

In a paragraph/sentence-rearrangement question, the opening segment must introduce the subject on its own — without a pronoun whose antecedent appears only later, and without a comparative word or conjunction that presupposes an earlier clause. The remaining segments are then ordered by their internal grammatical links: a comparative structure such as 'less … than' must keep its two halves adjacent and in that order, and an additive connector such as 'also' marks a segment that adds to a point already made, so it belongs near the end.

1. The segment introducing Huxley's book and whether it counts as a true novel names the subject without depending on any other segment, so it must open the paragraph.

2. The segment 'It is less concerned with telling a tale' opens a comparative structure with 'less', which needs a 'than' clause to complete it.

3. The segment 'Than with presenting an attitude of life' supplies exactly that missing 'than' clause, so it must immediately follow the 'less concerned' segment.

4. The segment 'It is also weak on characterization but strong on talk' uses the additive word 'also' to add a further point after the main comparison, so it must come last.

5. This gives the sequence B, A, D, C.

Reading the segments continuously in this order confirms it: "As with so much of Huxley's later fiction, one is not sure whether or not to call this book a true novel. It is less concerned with telling a tale than with presenting an attitude of life. It is also weak on characterization but strong on talk." The passage reads as a single coherent argument, confirming that the correct sequence is BADC.