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The following sentences make up a paragraph. However, these sentences are not in the proper order. Find the logical sequence for these sentences.
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
Answer: Option A
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The presence of the transition word 'but' in the first sentence signifies that the sentence is expressing an idea contrary to an idea expressed in some previous sentence. We need to figure out which is that previous sentence. Furthermore, the first sentence starts off by saying 'but in the institutional era' which suggests that the contrariness is with respect to eras. Sentences B and C also talk about eras. But the transition word at the start of C is 'now' which expresses present era and hence it cannot come before any other past erachronologically. That is, if information era is the present era, talk about any other era will come before this. So sentence B is the correct sentence to come before the first sentence. Likewise, sentence C is the correct sentence to come after the first sentence (since sentence C is continuing the idea). Thus, we get the linkBAC. Options (a), (c) and (d) all have the linkBAC. Furthermore, all the three options have the linkEBAC. Therefore, we only need to arrange D and F. Sentence F states that 'The purpose is to battle the enemy' and D questions' how do you battle the enemy'. Thus D should come after F thus making answer option (a) the correct answer choice.
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The presence of the transition word 'but' in the first sentence signifies that the sentence is expressing an idea contrary to an idea expressed in some previous sentence. We need to figure out which is that previous sentence. Furthermore, the first sentence starts off by saying 'but in the institutional era' which suggests that the contrariness is with respect to eras. Sentences B and C also talk about eras. But the transition word at the start of C is 'now' which expresses present era and hence it cannot come before any other past erachronologically. That is, if information era is the present era, talk about any other era will come before this. So sentence B is the correct sentence to come before the first sentence. Likewise, sentence C is the correct sentence to come after the first sentence (since sentence C is continuing the idea). Thus, we get the linkBAC. Options (a), (c) and (d) all have the linkBAC. Furthermore, all the three options have the linkEBAC. Therefore, we only need to arrange D and F. Sentence F states that 'The purpose is to battle the enemy' and D questions' how do you battle the enemy'. Thus D should come after F thus making answer option (a) the correct answer choice.
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