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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 middle four sentences has been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1: In 1984, two small clay tablets of vaguely rectangular shape were found in Tell Brak, Syria, dating from the fourth millennium BCE.

S6: All our history begins with these two modest tablets as they are among the oldest examples of writing we know.

P: One of the animals may have been a goat, in which case, the other probably was a sheep.

Q: Lying there were these simple, unimpressive objects, each bearing a few discrete markings: a small indentation near the top and some sort of stick-drawn animal in the centre.

R: The indentation, on the other hand, represents, according to archaeologists, the number ten.

S: These two tablets were seen by an expert the year before the Gulf War, in an unostentatious display case in the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad.

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The correct answer is

S Q P R

S1 introduces the clay tablets found in Syria. S explains that an expert examined them in Baghdad, Q describes their simple markings, P interprets the stick-drawn animal figures as a goat and sheep, and R interprets the indentation as the number ten, leading into S6's concluding statement. The correct sequence is S-Q-P-R.

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