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For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence with sentence 1 and sentence 6 as the starting sentence and the concluding sentence respectively:
(1) Whenever a big company announces a work-force reduction, you can count on reading about it in the papers the next day.
(A) Do they head to the post-office and start mailing resumes, hoping to land a job just like their old one?
(B) But, curiously, there's little follow-up: what happens to those thousands of ex-employees?
(C) Lay-off stories have become a sobering staple of business journalism over the past decade.
(D) Do they ever make as much money as they used to?
(6) Or are they consigned to forever chase behind their former salaries?
For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence with sentence 1 and sentence 6 as the starting sentence and the concluding sentence respectively:
(A) Do they head to the post-office and start mailing resumes, hoping to land a job just like their old one?
(B) But, curiously, there's little follow-up: what happens to those thousands of ex-employees?
(C) Lay-off stories have become a sobering staple of business journalism over the past decade.
(D) Do they ever make as much money as they used to?
(6) Or are they consigned to forever chase behind their former salaries?
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Solution
The correct option is C CBAD
From the sentences, the one in C talks about "Lay-off stories", which is a direct link to the first sentence: "... you can count on reading about it (work-force reduction) in the papers... "; 'reading about it' refers to the stories. Hence 1 is followed by sentence C. If this sentence is placed in any other order, the resulting text will not have a complete meaning.
If C comes last (option A), then the sixth sentence is not linked in meaning, same goes for the sequence in options B and D. Hence options A, B and D are incorrect.
The sentence C is followed by B, as the words in B "but, curiously, there's little follow-up..." refers to the follow-up in these "lay-off stories" (from C).
Sentence B is followed by A: the pronoun "they" refers to someone who has been mentioned before, as in sentence B: "those thousands of ex-employees".
Sentence A is followed by D: the words "do they ever make as much money" is a question that follows the previous question: Do they head to the post-office...?" (A) cannot be placed after (D), as the sixth sentence "Or are they consigned ...?" is an immediate question after D; 'or' is an alternative (that expresses a choice) and the linking words are "former salaries" and "as much money as they used to". Hence the correct logical sequence is in C.
From the sentences, the one in C talks about "Lay-off stories", which is a direct link to the first sentence: "... you can count on reading about it (work-force reduction) in the papers... "; 'reading about it' refers to the stories. Hence 1 is followed by sentence C. If this sentence is placed in any other order, the resulting text will not have a complete meaning.
If C comes last (option A), then the sixth sentence is not linked in meaning, same goes for the sequence in options B and D. Hence options A, B and D are incorrect.
The sentence C is followed by B, as the words in B "but, curiously, there's little follow-up..." refers to the follow-up in these "lay-off stories" (from C).
Sentence B is followed by A: the pronoun "they" refers to someone who has been mentioned before, as in sentence B: "those thousands of ex-employees".
Sentence A is followed by D: the words "do they ever make as much money" is a question that follows the previous question: Do they head to the post-office...?" (A) cannot be placed after (D), as the sixth sentence "Or are they consigned ...?" is an immediate question after D; 'or' is an alternative (that expresses a choice) and the linking words are "former salaries" and "as much money as they used to". Hence the correct logical sequence is in C.
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