CAT 2023 Question Paper | VARC Slot 1

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Question 22 : The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given 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. What precisely are the "unusual elements" that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience?
2 . It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.
3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that "ordinary" murder doesn't.
4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?

Explanatory Answer

41 is a strong link. Both of these are questions related to why some crimes are destined for perpetual re-examination while others aren't. 4 goes before 1 as it is more general.

The answers to the question in 1 is given in 2. The "unusual elements" that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience may be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.

3 concludes the paragraph stating that unsolved or unsolvable cases offer something that "ordinary" murder does not.

4123 is the correct choice.

The answer is '4123'