Question
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) 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:
- Man has used poisons for assassination purposes ever since the dawn of civilization, against individual enemies but also occasionally against armies.
- These dangers were soon recognized, and resulted in two international declarations—in 1874 in Brussels and in 1899 in The Hague—that prohibited the use of poisoned weapons.
- The foundation of microbiology by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch offered new prospects for those interested in biological weapons because it allowed agents to be chosen and designed on a rational basis.
- Though treaties were all made in good faith, they contained no means of control, and so failed to prevent interested parties from developing and using biological weapons.
Option: 1324
Solution:
Solution:
This is the easiest parajumble you will ever get in cat exam. The passage moves from the broader idea of “historical use of poisons” to a narrower idea of “biological weapons”. 1 opens the paragraph. It then moves to biological weapons in 3. In 2 treaties are signed against the use poisoned weapons. In 4 there is additional info about the treaties, that they contained no means of control. Thus 1324 is the right sequence.
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