Para Jumble: Microfactories for E-Waste Recycling
CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Easy · Verbal Ability
This is an easy Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2023 Slot 3 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.
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.
- Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the University of New South Wales, believes there is a new way of solving this problem.
- Her vision is for automated drones and robots to pick out components, put them into a small furnace and smelt them at specific temperatures to extract the metals one by one before they are sent off to manufacturers for reuse.
- E-waste contains huge quantities of valuable metals, ceramics and plastics that could be salvaged and recycled, although currently not enough of it is.
- She plans to build microfactories that can tease apart the tangle of materials in mobile phones, computers and other e-waste.
3142
Explanation
The correct sequence is 3142. Sentence 3 introduces the problem (insufficient e-waste recycling). Sentence 1 introduces Veena Sahajwalla who proposes a solution to 'this problem'. Sentence 4 explains her plan to build microfactories. Sentence 2 elaborates on her vision for those microfactories.
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