Question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
Stat’ signaled something measurable, while ‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron’, above all, indicated control.
It was a totem of high modernism, the intellectual and cultural mode that decreed no process or phenomenon was too complex to be grasped, managed andoptimized.
Like the heraldic shields of ancient knights, these morphemes were painted onto the names of scientific technologies to proclaim one’s history and achievements tofriends and enemies alike.
The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix ‘-tron’, along with ‘-matic’ and ‘-stat’, embodied symbols.
To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.
With a careful reading of all the four sentences, we know 4 will start the sequence since it acts like an introduction. 3, 1 and 5 has to follow to form a meaningful sequence. Even if we just read sentence 2 it talks about symbol of high modernism, which has no link with the others. Hence 2 is the odd one out.
Answer: 2