Direction: The sentences given in each question, when arranged in the proper sequence, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter/number. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
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A. For if knowledge became too great for communication, it would degenerate into scholasticism, and the weak acceptance of authority; mankind would slip into a new age of faith, worshiping at a respectful distance its new priests.
B. The civilization, which had hoped to raise itself up on education disseminated far and wide, would be left precariously based upon a technical erudition that had become the monopoly of an esoteric class monastically isolated from the world by the birth rate of terminology.
C. To find for new truths, old terms that all literate people might understand.
D. The function of the professional teacher was to mediate between the specialist and the nation; to learn the specialist’s language, as the specialist had learned the nature’s, in order to break down the barriers between knowledge and need.
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- A B C D
- B C D A
- C A D B
- D C A B
Correct Option: D
D C is the key. Passage must begin with D as it initiates with ‘The function of the professional teacher was to ….. in order to break down the barriers between knowledge and need’. C must follow D as it states that ‘to find for new truths ….. people might understand’. A, B and C cannot begin the passage as they provide supportive text. A should follow C as it mentions about ‘knowledge for communication, ….. worshiping at a respectful distance its new priests’. B would follow A and would also close the passage as it states that ‘the civilization, which had hoped to raise itself ….. monastically isolated from the world by the birth rate of terminology’. The right sequence is D C A B.
