48. Ice cream may be a “fun” food, but the ice cream industry is surprisingly competitive, even brutal. _______________

(1) Small players running onto the field of play are likely to be beaten up by bullies.

(2) The two’s whole lives had been spent in getting up after being knocked down by the big boys.

(3) Despite the numerous knockdowns, Ben and Jerry have managed to make billions of sweet teeth happy ever since the first day they started to write their very own ice cream saga.

(4) That is what happened repeatedly to the pair of intrepid entrepreneurs.
(A) 1423
(B) 2143
(C) 4312
(D) 3241