CAT 2017 Slot 2 — VARC Question 29
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
Despite their fierce reputation, Vikings may not have always been the plunderers and pillagers popular culture imagines them to be. In fact, they got their start trading in northern European markets, researchers suggest.
Combs carved from animal antlers, as well as comb manufacturing waste and raw antler material has turned up at three archaeological sites in Denmark, including a medieval marketplace in the city of Ribe. A team of researchers from Denmark and U.K.hoped to identify the species of animal to which the antlers once belonged by analyzing collagen proteins in the samples and comparing them across the animal kingdom, Laura Geggel reports for liveScience.
Somewhat surprisingly, molecular analysis of the artifacts revealed that some combs and other material had been carved from reindeer antlers…. Given that reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) don’t live in Denmark, the researchers posit that it arrived on Viking ships from Norway. Antler craftsmanship, in the form of decorative combs, was part of Viking culture. Such combs served as symbols of good health, Geggel writes. The fact that the animals shed their antlers also made them easy to collect from the large herds that inhabited Norway.
Since the artifacts were found in marketplace areas at each site it’s more likely that the Norsemen came to trade rather than pillage. Most of the artifacts also date to the 780s, but some are as old as 725. That predates the beginning of Viking raids on great Britain by about 70 years. (Traditionally, the so-called “Viking Age” began with these raids in 793 and ended with Norman conquest of Great Britain in 1066.) Archaeologists had suspected that the Viking had experience with ling maritime voyages [that] might have preceded their raiding days. Beyond Norway, these combs would have been a popular industry in Scandinavia as well. It’s possible that the antler comb’s represent a larger trade network, where the Norsemen supplied raw material to craftsmen in Denmark and elsewhere.
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.
- Before plants can take life from atmosphere, nitrogen must undergo transformation similar to once that food undergoes in our digestive machinery.
- In its aerial form nitrogen in insoluble , unusable and is in need of transformation.
- Lightning starts the series of chemical reactions that need to happen to nitrogen, ultimately helping it nourish our earth.
- Nitrogen-an essential food for plants-is an abundant resource, with about 22million tons of it floating over each square mile of earth.
- One of the most dramatic examples in nature of ill wind that blows goodness is lightning.
Answer & solution
Answer: 53421
Before we decide which sentence can start the series, we can discern two sequences – 5, 3 and 4,2. Sentence 3 follows sentence 5 as sentence 3 elaborates on how lightning, which may be considered an ill wind, blows goodness, because it starts the series of chemical reactions that ultimately help it to nourish the earth.
Similarly, sentence 2 can be deduced to follow sentence 4. Sentence 4 talks about nitrogen floating over earth and sentence 2 refers to its aerial form.
Between the 2 sequences of 5, 3 and 4, 2, one can see that 4,2 would follow 5,3 instead of the other way round as sentence 4 logically follows from sentence 3. Sentence 3 introduces nitrogen and sentence 4 elaborates on it. Also, the remaining sentence 1, coherently follows after sentence 2. This makes the sequence 5, 3, 4, 2, 1.
Hence, the correct answer is 53421.