CAT 2025 Question Paper | VARC Slot 3

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Question 12 : 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. When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, ‘I worked too hard for the “a” in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.’
2. Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.
3.They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.
4. More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.

Explanatory Answer

Sentence 4 introduces Latinx, so it is the starting sentence. 43 is a link. The 'they' in 3 clearly refers to activists seeking to render names gender-neutral. They have devised Latinx though gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual. 12 is also a link. 1 talks about the reluctance of a female LGBTQ activist to refer to herself using Latinx. 2 follows this up stating that of the accumulated ethnic population, less than 2 percent recognize Latinx. 2 is a better concluding statement than 1, so it goes after 1. So, 4312 is the correct order.

The answer is '4312'

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