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The following sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. What is the most logical order of the sentences? Seven of the ten worst affected…

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The following sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. What is the most logical order of the sentences?


  1. Seven of the ten worst affected countries (including India) are low- and middle-income countries.

  2. Between 1993 and 2022, India was the sixth worst-affected country in terms of fatalities and damage sustained from extreme weather events wrought by the climate crisis.

  3. High income nations, whose economies are founded in industrial era use of fossil fuels, meanwhile, insist that growing economies, especially India and China, shoulder greater responsibility.

  4. This reinforces the developing world's contention that it has had to bear a disproportionate burden of climate afflictions despite having contributed little to the crisis.

  1. 2,4,1,3
  2. 2,1,3,4
  3. 2,1,4,3
  4. 1,4,2,3

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C - 2,1,4,3

The most coherent order is 2,1,4,32,1,4,3. India's ranking in sentence 2 leads into the broader pattern in sentence 1, which supports the inference about developing countries in sentence 4. Sentence 3 then gives the counterclaim from high-income nations. In 2,1,3,42,1,3,4, the counterclaim interrupts the link between the evidence and the inference it supports.

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