In this section, each item consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are marked as S1 and S6. The four sentences between S1 and S6 have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. This is followed by four options, each suggesting a sequence of sentences. Identify the most appropriate option and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
S1: It would be possible to adduce many examples showing what could be done with the limited means' at our ancestor’s disposal in the way of making life comfortable.
S6: I hope, in this essay, to make that connection manifest.
P: What have comfort and cleanliness to do with politics, morals, and religion ?
Q: But look more closely and you will discover that there exists the closest connection between the recent growth of comfort and the recent history of ideas.
R: They show that if they lived in filth and discomfort, it was because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles, political, moral and religious.
S: At a first glance one would say that there could be no causal connection between arm chairs and democracies, sofas and the family system, hot baths and religious orthodoxy.
- APRQS
- BRPSQ
- CQSRP
- DQSPR
Explanation
S1 offers to adduce examples of comfort achieved with limited means. R must follow at once, since 'They' refers to those examples, showing ancestral discomfort fitted their principles. P then asks the rhetorical question linking comfort and cleanliness to politics, morals, and religion, echoing R's 'political, moral and religious.' S gives the 'first glance' view that no causal connection exists, and Q answers it directly: 'But look more closely' reveals the closest connection. S6 then resolves to make 'that connection' manifest, referring to Q's phrase. The S-Q pairing is decisive, so only (b) RPSQ works.