CDS 2026 (I) English, question 32

Topic: Ordering of sentences

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Directions · Q31 to Q40

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.

Q32

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.

  1. (a) QPRSCorrect answer
  2. (b) QPSR
  3. (c) SQRP
  4. (d) SQPR

Solution.

Answer: (a) QPRS

  1. Q develops Britain's political stability, and P explains what that stability meant.
  2. R introduces widespread use of money; S gives its consequence, wages and salaries, which supplies the reference for “This” in S6.
  3. Sequence: Q → P → R → S.