CAT 2003 Slot 2 — VARC Question 13
Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.
- The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.
- A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic 'separation wall' now being built in the West Bank by Israel.
- It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
- It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometres at a stretch.
- Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel's American allies who are going to pay for most of it.
Answer & solution
- A
BCADE
BADCE
- C
AEDCB
- D
ECADB
AD is a mandatory pair. The wall (sentence A) does not simply divide … (but) it (sentence D) actually takes in … That helps us eliminate option 3.
The concept of wall is first introduced in sentence B (chilling omission is the gigantic separation wall). Therefore, sentence B begins the paragraph. With that we can eliminate option 4.
After all, this in ‘this wall’ of sentence E has to have ‘the wall’ mentioned prior to sentence E. Options 1 and 2 are close. But, since sentence C is more specific, it should come after AD.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.