Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. In Bihar and Central India, in particular, every district had smelters that used local deposits of ore to produce iron which was widely used for the manufacture of implements and tools of daily use.
B. The smelting was done by men while women worked on the bellows, pumping air that kept the charcoal burning.
C. But iron smelting in India was extremely common till the end of the nineteenth century.
D. Production of Wootz steel required a highly specialised technique of refining iron.
Option 1: ACDB
Option 2: DCAB
Option 3: BCDA
Option 4: CBDA
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Correct Answer: DCAB
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The paragraph starts with sentence D , which tells about the requirement of highly specialised techniques to produce Wootz steel.
Sentence C provides a contrast to sentence D, which states that iron smelting was extremely common in India till the end of the nineteenth century.
The idea of sentence C is further explained in sentence A , which states that every district in Bihar and Central India used local deposits of ore to produce iron.
The paragraph concludes with sentence B, which is the extension of sentence A that smelting was done by men while women worked on the bellows pumping air that kept the charcoal burning.
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