Each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence.
S1: Britain was the first country to experience modern industrialization.
S6: This gave people a wider choice for ways to spend their earnings and expanded the market for the sale of goods.
P: This meant that the kingdom had common laws, a single currency and a market that was not fragmented by local authorities and uneven taxation.
Q: It had been politically stable since the seventeenth century, with England, Wales and Scotland unified under a monarchy.
R: By then a large section of the people received their income in the form of wages and salaries than in goods.
S: By the end of the seventeenth century, money was widely used as the medium of exchange
The correct sequence should be
- AQPSR
- BPSQR
- CRSQP
- DSRQP
Explanation
Q gives political stability and unification, P spells out what 'this' meant (common laws, single currency), S and R describe the money economy by the end of the seventeenth century ('by then'), and S6 the resulting wider markets. QPSR; the other orders detach P's 'This' from Q or misplace the 'by then' sequence.