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CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC · Easy · Verbal Ability

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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:

  1. A popular response is the exhortation to plant more trees.
  2. It seems all but certain that global warming will go well above two degrees quite how high no one knows yet.
  3. Burning them releases it, which is why the scale of forest fires in the Amazon basin last year garnered headlines.
  4. This is because trees sequester carbon by absorbing carbon dioxide.
Answer

2143

Explanation

Sentence 2 sets the problem (global warming). Sentence 1 gives a response (plant more trees). Sentence 4 explains why planting trees helps (sequestering carbon). Sentence 3 adds what happens when trees are burned ('releases it'). Thus, the correct sequence is 2143.

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