CAT 2001 — VARC Question 10
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentences is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
- So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
- Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
- However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
Answer & solution
- A
DABC
ACDB
- C
CBAD
- D
DBAC
A begins the passage by introducing the question of an outsider’s role in a private fight. It is followed by CD which is a mandatory pair. One of the probable rules in uncontrolled applications of force (statement C) is mentioned in D (in mutual massacre too, people do not want an outsider to be killed). Only in option 2 is the pair present. ACD is followed by sentence B which uses the keyword, ‘so’ to continue the idea from D and puts up the thought that the risk to an outsider is calculable. Therefore, the sequence is A-C-D-B.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.