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Which of the following is the most logical sequence to complete the passage?
The “lessons-of-history” is indeed a familiar phrase, so much so that the lessons are sometimes learned too well. History never repeats itself exactly; no historical situation is the same as any other; even two like events differ in that the first has no precedent, while the second has. But even in this respect, history can teach a lesson—namely that nothing ever stays the same. The only unchanging thing in human affairs is the constancy of change itself. The process of history is unique, but nonetheless intelligible. Each situation and event is distinct, but each is connected to all the foregoing and succeeding ones by a complex web of cause and effect, probability and accident.
(A) The unique present, just as each unique point in the past, is utterly unintelligible unless we understand the history of how it came to be. While history is a record of unique happenings, it is something more than chaos.
(B) The present may be the consequence of accidents, or of irresistible forces, but in either case the present consequences of past events are real and irreversible.
(C) To perceive the elements of order in the chaotic record of past events is the great task of the historian. Events, people, groups and institutions fall into certain classes that exhibit at least partial regularities.

(A)-(C)-(B)

(B)-(A)-(C)

(B)-(C)-(A)

(C)-(A)-(B)

(C)-(B)-(A)

글의 순서로 가장 알맞은 것은 “(B)-(A)-(C)”이다.
제시문 끝의 “cause and effect, probability and accident”(인과와 확률, 우연)를 (B)의 “accidents”(우연)와 “irresistible forces”(불가항력)가 받는다. (B)의 “the present”(현재)는 (A)의 “The unique present”로 이어지고, (A) 끝의 “more than chaos”(혼돈 이상의 것)는 (C)의 “elements of order in the chaotic record”(혼돈스러운 기록 속 질서의 요소)로 연결된다.
“(A)-(C)-(B)”: (C)의 역사가의 과제 뒤에 (B)의 우연 논의로 되돌아가 흐름이 끊긴다.
“(B)-(C)-(A)”: “chaos”를 처음 꺼내는 (A)보다 (C)의 “the chaotic record”가 먼저 나와 연결이 뒤집힌다.
“(C)-(A)-(B)”: 제시문 뒤에 곧바로 혼돈 속 질서를 찾는 (C)가 오면 받을 말이 없다.
“(C)-(B)-(A)”: 역시 (C)가 먼저 나오고, (A)의 “chaos”가 (C)로 이어지는 흐름을 끊는다.