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Which of the following is the most logical sequence of the five parts to complete the passage?
(A) There were few diversions, and they had more time to read novels of a length that seems to us now inordinate.
(B) Readers in the past seem to have been more patient than the readers of today.
(C) It may be that they were not irritated by the digressions and irrelevances that interrupted the narration.
(D) It is deplorable that on this account they should be less and less read.
(E) But some of the novels that suffer from these defects are among the greatest that have ever been written.

(A)-(C)-(D)-(E)-(B)

(A)-(E)-(C)-(D)-(B)

(B)-(A)-(C)-(E)-(D)

(B)-(A)-(E)-(D)-(C)

(B)-(C)-(A)-(E)-(D)

글의 흐름에 맞는 순서는 (B)-(A)-(C)-(E)-(D)이다.
과거 독자의 인내심을 말하는 (B)가 먼저 오고, 그 이유를 밝히는 (A), 또 다른 추정을 더하는 (C)가 이어진다. (E)의 “these defects”는 (C)의 “digressions and irrelevances”를 받고, (D)의 “on this account”는 그 결함을 이유로 든다.
(A)-(C)-(D)-(E)-(B): (A)의 “they”가 가리킬 대상이 없어 첫 문장이 될 수 없다.
(A)-(E)-(C)-(D)-(B): 역시 “they”의 대상이 없고, (E)의 “these defects”도 앞에 받을 내용이 없다.
(B)-(A)-(E)-(D)-(C): “these defects”가 나온 뒤에야 (C)가 결함을 말하게 되어 지칭 순서가 뒤바뀐다.
(B)-(C)-(A)-(E)-(D): (C)와 (E) 사이에 (A)가 끼어 결함 내용과 “these defects”의 연결이 끊긴다.