This question is essentially a choice between options (b) and (c). The link between statements B and D can be seen. “This disdain for the aesthetic..." in statement D clearly has to follow statement B, which introduces this ‘aesthetic’. However, the choice after BD becomes difficult. What makes option (b) correct is the link (D-A). Statement D presents the idea that this criticism or disdain may have its origin in Puritanism, which fears a connection between aesthetic and pleasure. Statement A adds to this by saying that in recent climate considering an artwork good simply because it gives us pleasure is courting derision or mockery. Statement C can come in the end to begin a new idea. If we look at option (c) none of the statements have very strong connections. There is nothing to link statements D and C and not very much to link statements C and A. Statement C starts discussing why aesthetic has been criticized in the twentieth century whereas statement A again goes back to discussing the link between aesthetic and pleasure.