CAT 2017 Slot 2 — VARC Question 30
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.
- This has huge implications for the health care system as it operates today, where depleted resources and time lead to patients rotating in and out of doctor’s offices, oftentimes receiving minimal care or concern (what is company referred to as “bed side manner) from doctors.
- The placebo effect is when as individual’s medical condition or pain shows signs of improvement based on a fake intervention that has been presented to them as a real one and used to be regularly dismissed by researchers as a psychological effect.
- The placebo effect is not solely based on believing in treatment, however as the clinical setting in which treatment are administered is also paramount.
- That the mind has the power to trigger biochemical changes the individual believes that a given drug or intervention will be effective could empower chronic patients through the notion of our bodies capacity for self-healing.
- Placebo effects are now studied not just as foils for real interventions but as a potential into the self-healing powers of the body.
Answer & solution
Answer: 25431
Among the sentences, sentence 2 is the obvious starter for the set. The set talks about the placebo effect and its implications – sentence 2 begins the discussion by defining what the placebo effect means. Among the remaining sentences, we can see a connection between sentence 3 and sentence 1 as sentence 3 talks about the ‘clinical settings’ being important and sentence 1 says that ‘this’ has huge implications for the health care system and goes on to talk about the bedside manner of doctors which is a reference to clinical settings.
Sentence 3 itself is likely to follow from sentence 4 as sentence 4 states that the ‘individual believes’ and sentence 3 says ‘…not solely based on believing…however..’. Thus we have the sequence 4, 3, 1.
Sentence 5 is remaining and that fits best after sentence 2 and before the 4, 3, 1 sequence. It indicates the direction of the discussion in 4, 3, 1. Thus we have the sequence 2, 5, 4, 3, 1.
Hence, the correct answer is 25431.