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PTE Re-order Paragraphs — Practice Exercises

Put each set of sentences into a logical order. Find the sentence that introduces the topic without referring back to anything — that is almost always first.

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Re-order Paragraphs — practice 1

  1. Honeybees play a central role in agriculture because they pollinate many of the crops humans rely on.
  2. As a bee gathers nectar, pollen sticks to its body and travels with it from flower to flower.
  3. This accidental transfer fertilises plants, allowing them to produce seeds and fruit.
  4. Scientists warn that declining bee populations could therefore threaten global food production.

Shown in the correct order.

Re-order Paragraphs — practice 2

  1. Sea otters spend almost their whole lives in cold coastal water without any blubber to warm them.
  2. Moreover, instead they rely on the densest fur in the animal kingdom, trapping air against their skin.
  3. By feasting on sea urchins, otters protect the kelp forests that urchins would otherwise devour.
  4. Where otters vanish, urchins multiply and mow the towering kelp down to bare rock.

Shown in the correct order.

Re-order Paragraphs — practice 3

  1. Volcanoes form where molten rock from deep inside the Earth forces its way to the surface.
  2. Furthermore, eruptions can bury whole landscapes under ash within a matter of hours.
  3. Yet volcanic soils later become some of the most fertile farmland on the planet.
  4. This is why millions of people choose to live in the shadow of active volcanoes.

Shown in the correct order.

Re-order Paragraphs — practice 4

  1. The Dead Sea, lying at the lowest dry point on Earth, is many times saltier than the ocean.
  2. What is more, the dense, mineral-heavy water makes swimmers bob on the surface like corks.
  3. Almost nothing can live in it, which is how the lake earned its name.
  4. Because inflowing rivers are heavily diverted, its shoreline now drops by about a metre each year.

Shown in the correct order.

Re-order Paragraphs — practice 5

  1. Spider silk is one of the strongest natural materials known to science.
  2. Weight for weight, the thread is tougher than steel yet remarkably light.
  3. As a result, spiders spin it from a liquid protein that hardens the instant it leaves the body.
  4. Engineers now study the silk hoping to copy its strength in new materials.

Shown in the correct order.

Re-order Paragraphs — practice 6

  1. Ancient tally systems could count sheep or coins but had no symbol for nothing at all.
  2. Moreover, indian mathematicians treated zero as a genuine number you could calculate with, not just a gap.
  3. As a result, the concept travelled through Arab scholars into Europe, where merchants adopted it for bookkeeping.
  4. Zero makes place-value arithmetic possible — without it, writing large numbers becomes clumsy.

Shown in the correct order.

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