Below are given some sentences out of which the sentence numbered 4 has been correctly placed. The rest of the sentences A, B, C, D, E, F need to be arranged correctly in order to form a logical order.

A. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the British parliament passed a law encouraging the use of grain for distilling spirits.

B. The illegal alcohol trade boomed and by 1933, the prohibition of alcohol was cancelled in the USA.

C. As a result cheap spirits flooded the market and reached a peak in the mid-eighteenth century contributing to widespread alcoholism in Britain.

4. The nineteenth century brought a change in attitudes and the temperance movement began promoting the moderate use of alcohol—which ultimately became a push for total prohibition.

D. In 1920 the US passed a law prohibiting the manufacture, sale, import and export of intoxicating liquors.

E. Today, an estimated 15 million Americans suffer from alcoholism and 40% of all car accident deaths in the US involve alcohol.

F. In the sixteenth century, alcohol (called “spirits”) was used largely for medicinal purposes.