Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.

• A. ‘Stat’ signaled something measurable, while ‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron’, above all, indicated control.
• B. It was a totem of high modernism, the intellectual and cultural mode that decreed no process or phenomenon was too complex to be grasped, managed and optimized.
• C. Like the heraldic shields of ancient knights, these morphemes were painted onto the names of scientific technologies to proclaim one’s history and achievements to friends and enemies alike.
• D. The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix ‘-tron’, along with ‘-matic’ and ‘-stat’, embodied symbols.
• E. To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Let's summarize the points:

Statement 4: This statement serves as the opening sentence, introducing the three suffix.

Statement 1: It forms a pair with statement 4 by explaining what the three suffix (symbols) meant, providing further detail.

Statement 5: This statement adds additional information by mentioning that gaining the suffix was a source of pride in an age of technology.

Statement 3: It extends the idea by explaining how these morphemes (symbols or suffix) were applied to the names of scientific technologies.

Statement 2: This statement is considered the odd one out as it introduces the term ""modernism,"" which is not directly connected to the focus on technology found in the other statements.

Your identification of pairs and the logical order of statements (4153) forms a coherent paragraph.