NinetynineCAT 2021 Slot 2 VARC Q20 Para Jumbles
Question 20 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2021 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. But today there is an epochal challenge to rethink and reconstitute the vision and practice of development as a shared responsibility – a sharing which binds both the agent and the audience, the developed world and the developing, in a bond of shared destiny.
2. We are at a crossroads now in our vision and practice of development.
3. This calls for the cultivation of an appropriate ethical mode of being in our lives which enables us to realize this global and planetary situation of shared living and responsibility.
4. Half a century ago, development began as a hope for a better human possibility, but in the last fifty years, this hope has lost itself in the dreary desert of various kinds of hegemonic applications.
1. But today there is an epochal challenge to rethink and reconstitute the vision and practice of development as a shared responsibility – a sharing which binds both the agent and the audience, the developed world and the developing, in a bond of shared destiny.
2. We are at a crossroads now in our vision and practice of development.
3. This calls for the cultivation of an appropriate ethical mode of being in our lives which enables us to realize this global and planetary situation of shared living and responsibility.
4. Half a century ago, development began as a hope for a better human possibility, but in the last fifty years, this hope has lost itself in the dreary desert of various kinds of hegemonic applications.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2413 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 2 opens with a general statement: we are at a crossroads in development.
- 4 gives the history: development began half a century ago as hope but lost its way.
- 1 contrasts with 'But today', the challenge to rethink development as a shared responsibility.
- 3 'This calls for' an ethical mode of being, following on from 1.