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CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Medium · Verbal Ability

This is a medium Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2023 Slot 1 paper. It tests Verbal Ability. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given 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. What precisely are the "unusual elements" that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience?
  2. It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.
  3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that "ordinary" murder doesn't.
  4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?
Answer

4123

Explanation

Sentence 4 opens with a broad question about crimes. Sentence 1 follows up asking what unusual elements make a case attractive. Sentence 2 answers this question ('It might be...'). Sentence 3 concludes on unsolved cases offering something unique.

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