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CAT 1991 — VARC Question 25

Opening & Closing SentenceEasy

The questions below consist of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence.

  1. The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.
  2. The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar world of  yesterday.
  3. The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment no longer holds good.
  4. But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar rather than unipolar world that appears to be emerging out of recent events.

Answer & solution

  • A

    ABCD

  • ACBD

  • C

    ADBC

  • D

    ADCB

Solution

A. introduces the age of pragmatism as the topic of the passage,

C. explains what has changed in the new age,

B. explains the characteristic of the old world and

D. comments on the position today.

Hence, option (b).

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