CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2000
Question . 93
In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.
A. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world.
B. Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of truth.
C. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older images drawn by hand; for one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention.
D. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems.
E. In teaching us a new visual code. Photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.
Explanatory Answer
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(c) B is the introduction to the passage, C follows referring to education by older images drawn by hand to be better than being educated by photographs, D talks about the inventory started in 1839 and everything else being photographed after that A refers to the insatiability of the photographing eye and E talks about the new visual code i.e. of photographs altering and enlarging our notions.