CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 24

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

  1. 'Literature on screen' suggests something more capacious and defining than citation: the possibility that literary adaptations are at once cinema and literature.
  2. Even though a growing number of films eligible for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium borrow that material from print journalism, franchise characters, television series, comic books, video games and toys, academic studies of adaptation remain stubbornly attached to literature as cinema's natural progenitor.
  3. It is as if adaptation studies, by borrowing the cultural cachet of literature, sought to claim its institutional respectability and gravitas even while insuring adaptation's enduring aesthetic and methodological subordination to literature proper.
  4. Beneath this contradictory notion of film adaptations as not merely hybrid texts but texts holding dual citizenship in two modes of presentation is an even more pervasive legacy that haunts adaptation studies: the assumption that the primary context within which adaptations are to be studied is literature.
Answer & solution

Answer: 1423

Work the referring phrases, which are the only firm handholds in abstract prose like this.

Sentence 4 begins 'Beneath this contradictory notion of film adaptations as not merely hybrid texts but texts holding dual citizenship in two modes of presentation'. That notion – adaptations being two things at once – is stated only in sentence 1, which says literary adaptations are 'at once cinema and literature'. So 1 must come immediately before 4. That pair is the anchor.

Sentence 1 can open, since it introduces the phrase 'Literature on screen' and needs nothing before it.

Sentence 4 then names the deeper assumption: that the primary context for studying adaptations is literature. Sentence 2 develops precisely that assumption, showing it persists even as films draw on journalism, comics, games and toys – 'academic studies of adaptation remain stubbornly attached to literature as cinema's natural progenitor'. So 2 follows 4.

Sentence 3 begins 'It is as if', an interpretive verdict on behaviour already described. It explains why the field clings to literature – borrowing its cachet while keeping adaptation subordinate. A verdict of this kind closes.

The sequence is 1423.

Shortcut: a demonstrative phrase that names a whole idea – 'this contradictory notion' – is the strongest link available. Find the sentence that states that idea and lock the pair before considering anything else; here it fixes 1–4 and the rest follows from 'It is as if' being a closer.

Hence, the answer is 1423.

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