Question

UNIT V — Arrange the sentences to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) This clearly indicates that the brains of men and women are organized differently in the way they process speech.
(ii) Difference in the way men and women process language is of special interest to brain researchers.
(iii) However women are more likely than men to suffer aphasia when the front part of the brain is damaged.
(iv) It has been known that aphasia — a kind of speech disorder — is more common in men than in women when the left side of the brain is damaged in an accident or after a stroke.

• A. ii, i, iii, iv
• B. iv, i, iii, ii
• C. iv, iii, ii, i
• D. iii, i, iv, ii

Hint:

In para-jumbles, chain the \textbf{signal words}: a contrastive {However} should be adjacent to what it contrasts with, and anaphoric {This/These} must immediately follow the idea they summarize. Place “significance” sentences last.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1 (Discourse markers and pronouns): Sentence (iii) opens with the contrastive marker {However}, clearly setting up a finding that runs counter to an accepted pattern. Sentence (i) begins with the anaphoric “{This},” which must summarize an immediately preceding observation — naturally, the contrast just expressed in (iii).
Step 2 (Background vs. new finding): Sentence (iv) supplies the established baseline: aphasia is usually more common in men when the {left} hemisphere is damaged. Sentence (iii) supplies the counter-pattern (women more likely when the {front} part is damaged).
Step 3 (Concluding relevance): Sentence (ii) generalizes the takeaway for the field (“of special interest to brain researchers”), and thus works best as a closing sentence after the contrasting evidence and the inference have been stated.
Step 4 (Order): Therefore, the most coherent flow is (iii) [new, contrastive result] $\rightarrow$ (i) [inference, “This”] $\rightarrow$ (iv) [established baseline that the “However” contrasts with] $\rightarrow$ (ii) [broader significance].
Elimination: (a) and (b) put the inference (i) too early; (c) ends with (i), leaving “This” too far from the evidence it summarizes. Hence (d).