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CAT/2002
Question . 86
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 fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact nature of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of a one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at the poles.
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an ‘oblate spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of ‘how much more’ was yet to be established.
Explanatory Answer
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(b) The reference to the exact nature of the shape of the earth in B begins the passage, E tells us what is generally known about the shape of the earth and what was yet to be established, D continues with the way of how to do that, C follows D as both talk about the way of knowing more about the shape of the earth through determining the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian. A tells us that this fact was established in the 1730s by a French survey expedition to the Ecuador.