Fusion Power (Para Jumble)

CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC · Hard · Verbal Ability

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 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. Look forward a few decades to an invention which can end the energy crisis, change the global economy and curb climate change at a stroke: commercial fusion power.
  2. To gain meaningful insights, logic has to be accompanied by asking probing questions of nature through controlled tests, precise observations and clever analysis.
  3. The greatest of all inventions is the über-invention that has provided the insights on which others depend: the modern scientific method.
  4. This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method; it will rest on the application of a diverse range of scientific insights, such as the process transforming hydrogen into helium to release huge amounts of energy.
Answer

3214

Explanation

Sentence 3 introduces the overarching invention (scientific method). Sentence 2 elaborates on how the scientific method gains insights. Sentence 1 introduces commercial fusion power as a future invention, and Sentence 4 connects fusion power back to the scientific method ('This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method...'). Thus, 3214.

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