Directions : In this section each item consists of six sentences that comprise a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The sequence of the four sentences in the middle, labelled as P, Q, R, and S, has been jumbled. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four jumbled sentences and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
S1: Britain was the first country to experience modern industrialisation. S6: This gave people a wider choice of ways to spend their earnings and expanded the market for the sale of goods. P: Stability meant that the Kingdom had common laws, a single currency and a market that was not fragmented by local authorities levying taxes on goods that passed through their area, thus increasing their price. Q: It had been politically stable since the seventeenth century, with England, Wales and Scotland unified under a monarchy. R: By the end of the seventeenth century, money was widely used as the medium of exchange. S: As a consequence, a large section of the people received their income in the form of wages and salaries, rather than in goods.
- AQPRS
- BQPSR
- CSQRP
- DSQPR
Explanation
S1 credits Britain with the first modern industrialisation, and Q supplies the precondition — political stability since the seventeenth century, with England, Wales and Scotland unified. P then spells out what that stability meant (common laws, a single currency, a market not fragmented by local taxes). R follows with money widely used as the medium of exchange, and S draws the consequence ("As a consequence") — people receiving income as wages and salaries — which S6's "this" (wider choice of spending earnings) picks up. The unbroken chain is Q-P-R-S, option A.