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: All governments claim eternal consistency and success.
S6: Diplomacy offers choices, and those choices must be negotiated with other sovereign actors.
P: Choices involved uncertainty, risk and immediacy; those who must take the choices operate in the contemporary political milieu.
Q: And yet the essence of governance is choice.
R: Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy decision-making.
S: Some even claim omniscience.
The correct sequence should be
- ASQPR
- BQSRP
- CSRPQ
- DRSPQ
Explanation
S extends S1's claim ('Some even claim omniscience'), Q counters it ('And yet the essence of governance is choice'), P elaborates on choices, and R narrows to foreign policy — which S6's 'Diplomacy' picks up. SQPR; the other orders break the S1–S link or the R–S6 diplomacy link.