CAT 2017 Slot 1 — VARC Question 31
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
- This visual turn in social media has merely accentuated this announcing instinct of ours, enabling us with easy-to-create, easy-to-share, easy-to store and easy-to-consume platforms, gadgets and apps.
- There is absolutely nothing new about us farming the vision of who we are or what we want, visually or otherwise, in our Facebook page, for example.
- Turning the pages of most family albums, which belong to a period well before the digital dissemination of self-created and self-curated moments and images, would reconfirm the basic instinct of documenting our presence in a particular space, on a significant occasion, with others who matter.
- We are empowered to book our faces and act as celebrities within the confinement of our respective friend lists, and communicate our activities, companionship and locations with minimal clicks and touches.
- What is unprecedented is not the desire to put out newsfeeds related to the self, but the ease with which this broadcast operation can now be executed, often provoking (un)anticipated responses from beyond one’s immediate location.
Answer & solution
Correct answer: 32145
Answer: 32145
Easy
A five-sentence para-jumble. Locate the opener (no back-reference), then follow the contrast/continuation links. The theme: the instinct to announce ourselves is old; what is new is the ease of broadcasting it through social media.
Find the opener: 3. Every other sentence carries an unresolved reference — 1 ("This visual turn"), 2 ("nothing new about us farming the vision"), 4 ("We are empowered"), 5 ("What is unprecedented"). Sentence 3 stands alone: it sets up the general idea using "most family albums" to establish "the basic instinct of documenting our presence." It opens.
3 → 2. Sentence 2 restates 3's point — "There is absolutely nothing new about us farming the vision of who we are… in our Facebook page, for example." It generalises the album instinct of 3 to social media, fixing 3–2.
2 → 1. Sentence 2 ends on "our Facebook page, for example"; sentence 1 begins "This visual turn in social media has merely accentuated this announcing instinct of ours." "This visual turn" links directly to the Facebook reference, giving 3–2–1.
1 → 4 → 5. Sentence 4 elaborates the "easy-to-share" platforms of 1 — "We are empowered to book our faces… with minimal clicks and touches." Sentence 5 then delivers the conclusion: "What is unprecedented is not the desire… but the ease with which this broadcast operation can now be executed." It crystallises the old-versus-new contrast running through the paragraph, so it closes.
Order: 3 – 2 – 1 – 4 – 5. Key in 32145.
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