Question: Directions: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
1. The reconstruction of history by post-revolutionary science texts involves more than a multiplication of historical misconstructions.
Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with what the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.
Those misconstructions render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a function.
But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to follow.
As pedagogy, this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.
6. Science has reached its present state by a series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modern body of technical knowledge.
(a) BADC is the correct answer choice.
The paragraph is trying to say that science textbooks and other scientific writings do not present the advance of science in the correct historical perspective and thereby present science as ‘a series of individual discoveries and inventions ... (6)’.
‘Those misconstructions’ in B connects it with 1, leading to BADC as the correct answer choice. B is followed
by A, which tells us why science textbooks are arranged as they are and D praises ‘this technique of presentation’ as ‘unexceptionable as pedagogy.’ ‘But’ in C contrasts with D and guides the reader to the incorrect ‘impression that is likely to follow.’ This impression is elaborated in 6.