Question: In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups.
Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.
When the four statements are studied well, it is very easy to establish that EC and BD are mandatory pairs.
Only statements E and C contain the idea of ‘crime’. Hence one cannot place any other statement along with statement E, but statement C.
In the same way, statements B and D both have reference to written ‘piece of work’, making BD in that order mandatory. Once this is noticed, placing EC and BD in that order with the help of A (fixed) is easy.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.