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The four sentences below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. From the options given, choose the most logical order.
1. Yet within a generation, refrigeration technology had made the seasonal calendar of eating largely optional for anyone with access to a supermarket.
2. For most of human history, what people ate in a given month was dictated almost entirely by what could be harvested, hunted, or preserved locally at that time of year.
3. This shift did not simply add convenience; it altered the very meaning of foods that had once marked the changing seasons, turning the strawberry from a brief early-summer event into a year-round commodity.
4. Some historians of food now argue that this loss of seasonal rhythm is one of the most underappreciated social consequences of twentieth-century technology.
1. Yet within a generation, refrigeration technology had made the seasonal calendar of eating largely optional for anyone with access to a supermarket.
2. For most of human history, what people ate in a given month was dictated almost entirely by what could be harvested, hunted, or preserved locally at that time of year.
3. This shift did not simply add convenience; it altered the very meaning of foods that had once marked the changing seasons, turning the strawberry from a brief early-summer event into a year-round commodity.
4. Some historians of food now argue that this loss of seasonal rhythm is one of the most underappreciated social consequences of twentieth-century technology.
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Answer: 2134
Sentence 2 opens with the general historical baseline (food dictated by season). Sentence 1 introduces the disruption ('Yet within a generation... refrigeration'), whose nearest antecedent 'this shift' in sentence 3 must immediately follow — sentence 3 then explains the deeper consequence in concrete terms (the strawberry example). Sentence 4 closes with the historians' broader verdict on that consequence ('this loss of seasonal rhythm'). The referring phrases lock in the chain: baseline (2) → disruption (1) → consequence of the disruption (3) → closing verdict (4), giving the order 2-1-3-4.
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