QUESTION
Four sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C and D. They need to be arranged in a logical order
to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. It is against this background and in this context that we must begin our understanding of political
theory.
B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it increasingly clear that in man,
most of the other primates, and in many other animal species as well, social life and organization
are primary biological survival devices.
C. What we call political and social organization— the customs, practices, and procedures that
with varying degrees of firmness hold men together in interrelated groups— is perhaps the most
important form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.
D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine, but he does have social life
and the capacity to organize it effectively for survival purposes
.
(a) BCAD (b) CBDA (c) BCDA (d) DCBA.
ANSWER
b (B-D) is a mandatory pair as it discusses the idea of
social life as a survival device. This pair is only present
in option (b).