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Payal Gupta

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The use of pronoun 'this' in the beginning of the first sentence gives a hint. 21 is a link here. Only A and B have this link. 4 is more of a concluding sentence. Hence, 2134 is the logical sequence.

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The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
Mongol empire, empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. Originating from the Mongol heartland in the Steppe of central Asia, by the late 13th century it spanned from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in the west. At its peak, it covered some 9 million square miles (23 million square km) of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
The year 1206, when Temüjin, son of Yesügei, was elected Genghis Khan of a federation of tribes on the banks of the Onon Ri

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. What has only recently emerged, though, is that children's conviction about their own capacity to control what happens in their lives and this knowledge suggests a window of opportunity for inoculating them against depression before it strikes.

2. Just like adults, sceptical methods of deciphering defeats appear to take care of the feeling of helplessness and misery at the heart of youngsters' depression.

3. That individuals who are

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Payal Gupta

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'think in these manners' connects 3rd with 2nd sentence. 'thought' of 1st sentence links it to 3rd. One line of evidence comes from 4th sentence which connects to 'suggests' of 1. This brings us to the correct sequence which can only be 2314.

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The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
Mongol empire, empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. Originating from the Mongol heartland in the Steppe of central Asia, by the late 13th century it spanned from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in the west. At its peak, it covered some 9 million square miles (23 million square km) of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
The year 1206, when Temüjin, son of Yesügei, was elected Genghis Khan of a federation of tribes on the banks of the Onon Ri

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The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
Mongol empire, empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. Originating from the Mongol heartland in the Steppe of central Asia, by the late 13th century it spanned from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in the west. At its peak, it covered some 9 million square miles (23 million square km) of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
The year 1206, when Temüjin, son of Yesügei, was elected Genghis Khan of a federation of tribes on the banks of the Onon River, mus

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Raj Pandey

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The following fact can be found in the last paragraph of the passage

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The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

Mongol empire, empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. Originating from the Mongol heartland in the Steppe of central Asia, by the late 13th century it spanned from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in the west. At its peak, it covered some 9 million square miles (23 million square km) of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in world history.

The year 1206, when Temüjin, son of Yesügei, was elected Genghis Khan of a federation of tribes on the banks of the Onon River, m

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Raj Pandey

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The given passage talks about origin of the Mongol empire

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Raj Pandey

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Option B clearly states the essence of the passage. Other options are far-fetched and state some irrelevant facts.

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Raj Pandey

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Last sentence uses all the relevant key words and state the given paragraph briefly keeping the real lesson intact.

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alok kumar singh

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3rd and 4th sentences begin the paragraph and the other two sentences constitute an example to justify the idea presented by 3 and 4. And 4th should be placed immediately before the example since the example focuses on the decision taken by the gifted leader, Hannibal of the Alps. So, correct sequence will be 3412.

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