Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to make a meaningful paragraph. (A) If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting
(B) Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people's pain and suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
(C) If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
(D) Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive tendencies.
Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to make a meaningful paragraph. (A) If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting
(B) Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people's pain and suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
(C) If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
(D) Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive tendencies.
Show Hint
- BACD
- ADBC
- BDCA.
CBDA
The Correct Option is D
Approach Solution - 1
To form a coherent paragraph, the sentences should be arranged as follows:
1. Sentence (C) introduces the main idea that if Karl Marx were alive today, he would identify television as the opiate of the people.
2. Sentence (B) explains Marx’s original idea that religion functioned as an opiate to soothe pain and prevent rebellion.
3. Sentence (D) extends this analogy, stating that modern entertainment, such as television, is an even greater form of opiate due to its addictive nature.
4. Finally, Sentence (A) concludes with the idea that external stimulation, like television, prevents the mind from developing its own reflective habits.
Thus, the correct sequence is (C) (B) (D) (A), corresponding to option (D).
Approach Solution -2
Instead of building the story point by point, this places each sentence using its opening word and its linking clue: which sentence must open the paragraph, which sentence's link word ties it to a predecessor, and which sentence is a closing generalisation.
- Sentence C: This is the only sentence that introduces both proper nouns, Karl Marx and television, without assuming they've already been mentioned, so it must open the paragraph.
- Sentence B: This explains why Marx viewed religion as the opiate, giving the background reasoning behind the comparison just raised in C, so it must come right after C.
- Sentence D: The phrase "even more of an opiate" is a comparison, and a comparison needs the earlier idea of an opiate already established in B, which places D right after B.
- Sentence A: This is a general statement about the mind losing its own reflective habits, carrying no proper nouns or comparison words, functioning as the paragraph's closing generalisation, so it comes last.
Tracing the sentences by their opening references and link words in this way gives the order C, B, D, A.
Hence, the correct answer is (D) CBDA.
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