CAT 2001 — VARC Question 7
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.
- But in the industrial era destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
- So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if you’re really vicious, salt them.
- Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
- How do you do battle with your enemy?
- The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
- With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
Answer & solution
FDEBAC
- B
FCABED
- C
DEBACF
- D
DFEBAC
Statement F begins the paragraph. F describes the purpose of the military and mentions that one of the purposes is to battle with the enemy. D continues this and asks how to battle your enemy. Hence, FD is a pair.
Statement E answers this question. A, B and C give the different cases of destroying the productive capacity of an enemy. Therefore, they all will come after statement E. The sequence is BAC. ‘so’ in B indicates that the statement continues after E. ‘But’ in statement A contrasts the agrarian era case.
C continues A as it brings us to the present (mentions ‘now’).
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.