S1:In 1945, America faced two powerful enemies in the world war. S6 : This was…
2023
S1:In 1945, America faced two powerful enemies in the world war.
S6 : This was the weapon that ended the second world war.
P : America found conventional weapons insufficient to crush them.
Q : These were Germany and Japan who posed strong opposition to America.
R : The result of this was the production of the atom bomb.
S : The government ordered the scientists to conduct research and produce a new deadly weapon.
The proper sequence should be
- A.
PQSR
- B.
QPSR
- C.
PQRS
- D.
QPRS
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Correct answer: B
In sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) questions, the correct order is fixed by tracing referential links — a pronoun or demonstrative such as “them”, “these”, or “this” must point to a noun already introduced by an earlier sentence — together with the cause-and-effect order, in which an action always precedes its result.
S1 introduces “two powerful enemies” without naming them.
Q resolves this reference: “These were Germany and Japan” — so Q must come directly after S1.
P states that conventional weapons were insufficient “to crush them”, where “them” points to Germany and Japan named in Q — so P follows Q.
S records the government’s response to that insufficiency — ordering scientists to research and produce a new weapon — so S follows P.
R gives the result of that research — “the production of the atom bomb” — so R follows S, and this leads naturally into S6, which calls the atom bomb “the weapon that ended the second world war.”
This chain fixes the order as Q-P-S-R. Any sequence that opens with P instead of Q leaves “them” without an antecedent, and any sequence that places R before S reverses the government’s order for research (S) and the weapon that resulted from it (R).
So the proper sequence is QPSR.