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The four sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct order as a four-digit number.
1. This meant that a scribe copying a manuscript by hand, working alone over months, was effectively the sole gatekeeper of what the next generation would read.
2. The printing press did not merely speed up the reproduction of books; it fundamentally altered who controlled the transmission of knowledge.
3. Before Gutenberg, every copy of a text had to be produced individually, by hand, a process that was slow, costly, and prone to error.
4. Print, by contrast, distributed that gatekeeping role across printers, editors, and eventually readers themselves, who could now compare multiple copies and notice discrepancies.
1. This meant that a scribe copying a manuscript by hand, working alone over months, was effectively the sole gatekeeper of what the next generation would read.
2. The printing press did not merely speed up the reproduction of books; it fundamentally altered who controlled the transmission of knowledge.
3. Before Gutenberg, every copy of a text had to be produced individually, by hand, a process that was slow, costly, and prone to error.
4. Print, by contrast, distributed that gatekeeping role across printers, editors, and eventually readers themselves, who could now compare multiple copies and notice discrepancies.
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Answer: 2314
Sentence 2 states the paragraph's thesis: print changed who controlled knowledge transmission. Sentence 3 explains the prior situation (hand-copying, before Gutenberg). Sentence 1 draws out the implication of that prior situation, the scribe as sole gatekeeper. Sentence 4 then contrasts this with print ('by contrast'), completing the argument. The order 2→3→1→4 is the only sequence where each sentence's connective ('this meant', 'by contrast') correctly links to its predecessor.
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