Paracompletion Question 6 - CAT 2024
Sentence: The brain isn’t organized the way you might set up your home office or bathroom medicine cabinet.
Paragraph: __(1)__. You can’t just put things anywhere you want to. The evolved architecture of the brain is haphazard and disjointed, and incorporates multiple systems, each of which has a mind of its own. __(2)__. Evolution doesn’t design things and it doesn’t build systems—it settles on systems that, historically, conveyed a survival benefit. There is no overarching, grand planner engineering the systems so that they work harmoniously together. __(3)__. The brain is more like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction. __(4)__.
Step-by-Step Explanation
The sentence fits best in Option 1 because it works as an introduction to the discussion about how the brain is organized. The comparison with familiar places, such as a home office or medicine cabinet, makes the idea easier to understand and naturally leads into the description of the brain as having a “haphazard and disjointed” structure.
The second position doesn’t work because the paragraph is already discussing how the brain developed through evolution. Bringing in the comparison at this stage would feel like a sudden change in focus.
The third position is also not suitable because there is already a similar comparison describing the brain as “a big, old house with piecemeal renovations.” Adding another analogy here would repeat the same idea.
The fourth position focuses more on the way evolution creates systems rather than on explaining the brain’s organization. The given sentence would therefore feel disconnected from the discussion.
So, Option 1 is the best choice.