Sentence Insertion - History of Kissing
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Medium · Verbal Ability
This is a medium Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2023 Slot 2 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.
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: And probably much earlier, moving the documentation for kissing back 1,000 years compared to what was acknowledged in the scientific community.
Paragraph: Research has hypothesised that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago.(1). From there it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously accelerating the spread of the herpes simplex virus 1. According to Dr Troels Pank Arbøll and Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen, who in a new article in the journal Science draw on a range of written sources from the earliest Mesopotamian societies, kissing was already a well-established practice 4,500 years ago in the Middle East.(2). In ancient Mesopotamia, people wrote in cuneiform script on clay tablets.(3). Many thousands of these clay tablets have survived to this day, and they contain clear examples that kissing was considered a part of romantic intimacy in ancient times.(4). "Kissing could also have been part of friendships and family members' relations," says Dr Troels Pank Arbøll, an expert on the history of medicine in Mesopotamia.
- A.
Option 4
- B.
Option 3
- C.
Option 1
- D.
Option 2
D
Explanation
Position (2) comes right after the mention of kissing being a well-established practice 4,500 years ago in the Middle East, which is 1,000 years earlier than the 3,500 years ago mentioned previously. Thus, "moving the documentation for kissing back 1,000 years" logically fits at (2).
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