NinetynineCAT 2022 Slot 2 VARC Q17 Para Jumbles
Question 17 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2022 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 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. The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is linked to the history of the word 'cheer' which comes from an Old French meaning 'face'.
2. Translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, expanded the noun 'cheer' into the more abstract 'cheerful-ness', something that circulates as an emotional and social quality defining the self and a moral community.
3. When you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: the interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer.
4. People in the medieval 'Canterbury Tales' have a 'piteous' or a 'sober' cheer; 'cheer' is an expression and a body part, lying at the intersection of emotions and physiognomy.
1. The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is linked to the history of the word 'cheer' which comes from an Old French meaning 'face'.
2. Translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, expanded the noun 'cheer' into the more abstract 'cheerful-ness', something that circulates as an emotional and social quality defining the self and a moral community.
3. When you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: the interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer.
4. People in the medieval 'Canterbury Tales' have a 'piteous' or a 'sober' cheer; 'cheer' is an expression and a body part, lying at the intersection of emotions and physiognomy.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 3142 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 3 opens with the core idea: putting on a cheerful expression moves cheerfulness into the self.
- 1 follows with 'The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self', which names the process in 3 and links it to the word 'cheer', meaning 'face'.
- 4 gives the medieval use: in the Canterbury Tales 'cheer' is an expression and a body part.
- 2 ends the history: Bible translations turned 'cheer' into the abstract 'cheerfulness'.
Shortcut. 'The trajectory ... through the self' in 1 points back to an idea already stated, so 1 cannot open.