Question 87

Identify the correct order of the following statements to make a coherent paragraph.
The lead sentence has been given.
Today, we believe it is not only the obligation, but the right of the parent to raise his or her own children.
A. Social scientists, today, still do not agree on who the ideal parent really is.
B. This thought was echoed in Gulliver’s Travels when the Lilliputians took the child
away at twenty months and had government agencies take over.
C. It seems strange that no general consensus has yet been arrived at after thousands
of years of considering this most basic of responsibilities.
D. However, 2400 years ago, the great philosopher, Plato, argued that it was too
important to leave up to parents.
E. They often see no real difference in biological parents, nannies, grandparents,
uncles and aunts, divorced parents and gay parents as far as their effectiveness is
concerned.

Solution

The lead sentence talks about the right of a parent to raise their child.

Thus, statement D forms the first sentence in the sequence as it mentions the view that was put forth by Plato 2400 years ago.

Since only option C starts with D, it is the required answer.

Statement B follows the idea in D by mentioning the example of "Gulliver's Travels"

A-E-C forms a logical sequence as they talk about the question of "who is the ideal parent?".

Thus, the required sequence is D-B-A-E-C.

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