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Question 25 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2020 Medium NAT +3.00 marks

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: 1. For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read. 2. Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work. 3. Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader. 4. The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics. 5. More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric, and that this has a profoundly damaging effect on women readers.

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