Question 30

The five sentences labelled (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on. the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia.
2. The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
3. The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these migrations.
4. In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive.
5. DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in the rnid-1300s.


Correct Answer: 54123

Solution

On carefully reading the sentences, we see that the paragraph is about the disease - black plaque and its impact on migration. Sentence 5 introduces the subject. Hence, it should be the opening sentence of the paragraph. Sentence 4 should follow 5 as 4 talks about the bronze age skeletons, which are mentioned in 5. Sentence 1 should follow 4 as 'the study' refers to the analysis of skeletons mentioned in 4. Sentences 2 and 3 form a pair as 2 mentions that the oldest sample was found in Russia and 3 mentions that this could have been the reason for mass exodus. 54123 forms a coherent paragraph.


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