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Direction: In each of the following questions, choose the most appropriate sequence of sentences from the given choices.

  1. (i) That convergence, which has been repeated over the centuries, took place again about 40 years ago, at the origins of what is sometimes called the 'Cognitive Revolution'.
    (ii) I will use the term intending you to hear quotes around the phrase 'Cognitive Revolution', expressing some scepticism; it was not all that much of a revolution, in my opinion.
    (iii) Language has sometimes been described as a 'mirror of mind', so that the study of language should then give unique insight into human thought.
    (iv) The study of languages and mind goes back to classical antiquity - to Classical Greece and India in the pre-Christian era.
    (v) It has often been assumed over these millennia that the two inquiries have some intimate relation.
    1. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) (v)
    2. (ii) (i) (iii) (v) (iv)
    3. (iv) (v) (iii) (i) (ii)
    4. (iv) (ii) (iii) (v) (i)
Correct Option: C

The phrase 'the two enquiries' of (v) refers to 'study of language and mind' in (iv). 'the term' of (ii) refers to 'Cognitive Revolution' of (i).



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