Directions: In this section each item consists of six sentences that comprise a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The sequence of the middle four sentences has been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: While most people are comfortable talking about colour, the concept of luminance – even though it is more fundamental – seems less familiar.
S6: This is something the Impressionist artists were able to master and it gave a shimmering, lively quality to many of their paintings.
P: For example, given two patches of grey, they can easily tell which is lighter.
Q: As the artist and art teacher Josef Albers states, just as a musician should be able to distinguish between a higher tone and a lower tone, an artist should be able to distinguish between higher and lower light intensity between different colours.
R: Artists, however, must learn to distinguish differences in luminance, independent of colour.
S: But given two patches of different colours, it is often difficult to make the same distinction.
- AP S R Q
- BP S Q R
- CR Q S P
- DQ R S P
Explanation
The correct order is P S R Q. S1 introduces unfamiliar luminance; P gives the easy case (two grey patches, “which is lighter”); S contrasts it (“But … it is often difficult to make the same distinction” — “the same distinction” refers back to P); R draws the lesson (artists must learn to distinguish luminance); Q crowns it with Albers’s authority; S6 notes the Impressionists’ mastery. This is option (a).