Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. A recent legislation has ensured that the antiquities trade will be subject to greater oversight, which empowers federal regulators to design measures that would remove secrecy from transactions.
B. Regulators have long worried that the opacity of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, made it an easy way to shroud illicit transfers of money.
C. The law also seeks to end the use of shell companies to conceal the identities of buyers and sellers.
D. Legal experts expect that the new antiquities regulations will flag certain transactions to the authorities, who then determine whether they are suspicious.
Solution
We first try to make sense of the passage as a whole from jumbled sentences, then arrange the sequence.
The passage introduces a fear of regulatory authorities about the lack of transparency in the antiquities trade; hence, a recent legislation was introduced to ensure transparency. It then discusses an additional scope of the law and what legal authorities think of its implications.Â
So, the right sequence framework should be: Introduction of the topic -> immediate steps to address the topic -> comments/opinions on the topic -> an additional point related to the topic.
Option B fits this framework; hence, B is correct.
