Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. It has been due to competing amusements, education, improvements in industrial condition and the expensiveness of drink itself.

B. The fanatics have been able to see it that the Englishman drinks his glass of beer with a faint feeling of wrongdoing but they have not actually been able to prevent him from drinking it.

C. The practical disappearance of drunkenness as an English vice has not been due to anti-drink fanatics.

D. In the matter of drink, the only result of a century of temperance agitation has been a slight increase in hypocrisy.

  1. DCAB

  2. BDCA

  3. ABDC

  4. DABC
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Sentence C gives remark that there was some other reason for disappearance of drunkenness in English people as not being English vice but something else and what that reason was has been given in sentence A, therefore, CA shall be a part of our final logical sequence. This reason helps us exact options (1) and (2) as possible answers. Look closely at sentences B and D, the idea is some in both of then but it shall be appropriate when sentence D comes first because it introduces the agitation against drinking by fanatics and in B is the result of their effects. This sequence is possible as given in option (1) and not (2). Therefore, option (1) is correct answer.

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