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CAT 2017 Slot 1

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer.

The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia.
The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these migrations.
In the analysis of fragments of DNA from $101$ Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive.
DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as $3,000$ BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s.

CAT 2021 Slot 3

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer.

Businesses find automation, such as robotic employees, a big asset in terms of productivity and efficiency.

But in recent years, robotics has had increasing impacts on unemployment, not just of manual labour, as computers are rapidly handling some white-collar and service-sector work.

For years politicians have promised workers that they would bring back their jobs by clamping down on trade, off shoring and immigration.

Economists, based on their research, say that the bigger threat to jobs now is not globalisation but automation.

Their business courses now largely cater to the growing demand from China Inc which has become more global, richer and ready to recruit from this sinocentric student body.

CAT 2021 Slot 1

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer.

A popular response is the exhortation to plant more trees.
It seems all but certain that global warming will go well above two degrees—quite how high no one knows yet.
Burning them releases it, which is why the scale of forest fires in the Amazon basin last year garnered headlines.
This is because trees sequester carbon by absorbing carbon dioxide.

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