1 Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded and hence it is war and not sc...........

English Language (SBI-PO) Parajumbles

Direction: The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement

1. Science merely reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded and hence it is war and not science which is considered as the enemy of mankind.

A. Our main problem, therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war, to substitute law for force and international governments for anarchy in the relations between nations.

B. It is found that there is peace, science is constructive; when there is war science is perverted to destructive ends.

C. Until now, they have brought us to the doorstep of doom.

D. The weapon which science gives us do not necessarily create war, these make war increasingly more terrible.

ADBC

BADC

CDAB

DABC

BDCA

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Explanation:

The central theme of the passage is the fact that science is not the enemy of mankind, but war is. B should follow 1 as it builds on the argument given in statement 1 and that we should stop war rather than curbing science. D follows as it gives reason in support of the argument laid in B. C talks about the fact that science making weapons which has made things worse and ‘brought us to the doorstep of doom’, talked about in statement C. The use of ‘therefore’ gives us a clue, that it is the concluding bit of the passage. The correct order is BDCA