PTE reading reorder practice exercise with answers

The text below has been placed in a random

order. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the choices given to construct a
paragraph.
1.
A. But this does not mean that death was the
Egyptians only pre-occupation.
B. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid
C. Most of our traditional sources of information about
the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like
pyramids and tombs.
D. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not
been preserved, and when most people died, they
were buried in simple graves.
E. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people
of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as
most monuments were of the rich people.
2.
A. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM,
reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the
world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one
day come to China or India.
B. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass
or extracted from underground coal or made from
water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way
will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions
from the whole system.
C. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out,
fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than
any existing engines.
D. That is twice as good as the internal combustion
engine, but only five percentage points better than a
diesel hybrid.
E. Allowing for the resources needed to extract
hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel
cell has an efficiency of 30%.
3.
A. A study to this effect suggests that the average
white-collar worker demonstrates only about twenty-
five percent listening efficiency.
B. However, for trained and good listeners, it is not
unusual to use all the three approaches during a
setting, thus improving listening efficiency.
C. There are three approaches to listening; listening for
comprehension, listening for empathy, and listening
for evaluation.
D. Although we spend nearly half of each
communication listening, we do not listen well.
E. Each approach has a particular emphasis that may
help us to receive and process information in different
settings.

4.
A. The history of mankind is full of such fightings
between communities, nation, and people.
B. From the primitive weapons of warfare, man has
advanced to the modern nuclear weapons.
C. Ever since the dawn of civilisation, man has been
fighting with man.
D. A modern war is scientific in character, but the
effect is the same, wiping human existence out of this
earth.
E. The only difference now seems to be in the
efficiency of the instruments used for killing each
other.

Answers
1.EDCBA 2. CEDBA 3. CEBDA 4. CABDE

PTE reading-reorder paragraphs practice

sample
The text below has been placed in a random order. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the choices given to construct a paragraph.
1.
A.One modern view of Paganism is that it is the ancestral religion of the
whole of humanity, and whilst it is an ancient religion, it remains active in the
modern world.
B.The word pagan is derived from Latin, and may be translated to mean
country dweller.
C.This term was first used during the Early Christian period to describe those
who had yet to embrace Christianity.
D.Modern Paganism (known also as Neopaganism or Contemporary Paganism)
is a movement / group of religions / spiritual traditions centered on the
reverence of nature.
E.It was used as a derogatory term to separate believers (in the Christian God)
from unbelievers.
2.
A.However, the authorities there arent ready to rest on their laurels, and
theyve decided to carry through a real revolution in their school system.
B.Finnish officials want to remove school subjects from the curriculum.
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C.There will no longer be any classes in physics, math, literature, history,
or geography.
D.Finlands education system is considered one of the best in the world.
E.In international ratings, its always in the top ten.
3.
A.The implicit or explicit purpose of most of these authors is to help prevent
the expected disaster by suggesting changes in human behaviour or policies.
B.Thus these works are not really predictions of what the future will be like,
but rather what it could be like if present trends continue.
C.There are a number of writings today warning that if humankind does not
change its ways some kind of disaster will occur in the future.
D.Jonathan Schell argues that the nation-state system, with its competition
among big nations armed with nuclear weapons and with the proliferation of
nuclear weapons to developing nations, is leading the world to a nuclear war.
E.The most frequently discussed disasters are those caused by nuclear
weapons, food shortages, pollution, overpopulation and overconsumption, the
depletion of non-renewable resources, and cosmic collisions.

PTE reading practice material-reorder

paragraphs exercise
The text below has been placed in a random order. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the choices given to construct a paragraph.
1.
A.La Boheme, the now-classic story of a group of poor artists living in a Paris
garret, earned mixed reviews, while Tosca was downright panned by critics.
B.In his later life, he would write some of the best-loved operas of all time: La
Boheme (1896), Tosca (1900), Madame Butterfly (1904) and Turandot (left
unfinished when he died in 1906).
C.On this day in 1904, Giacomo Puccinis opera Madame Butterfly premieres at
the La Scala theater in Milan, Italy.
D.The young Puccini decided to dedicate his life to opera after seeing a
performance of Giuseppe Verdis Aida in 1876.
E.Not one of these, however, was an immediate success when it open
2.
A.Those filled Oroville, prompting the release of water onto its spillway.
B.Oroville Dam in California, a crisis that foreshadows what the Golden State
can expect more of with climate change, several experts said.
C.Then that structure suffered a sinkhole that became apparent last week.
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D.A series of storms powered by a phenomenon known as the atmospheric
river hit Northern California this winter.
E.The situation at Oroville in Butte County, Calif., northeast of Sacramento
happened after both an infrastructure failure and a weather event, said
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA.

3.
A.Thailands contribution to basic science has also grown in recent years, with
its researchers doubling their output in physical sciences journals in the index
between 2012 and 2015.
B.Known for its resorts and Buddhist temples, Thailand is also a regional center
of R&D and high-tech manufacturing.
C.Established in 1991, it supports centers of excellence in genetic engineering,
biotechnology, electronics, and nanotechnology.
D.Its the worlds second-largest exporter of hard disk drives and a major
center for car production.
E.A major player is the state-backed National Science and Technology
Development Agency.
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1.C,D,B,E,A 2. B,E,D,A,C 3.B,D,A,E,C
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PTE reading reorder practice test.The text below has been placed
in a random order. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the choices given to construct a paragraph.
1.
A.But here he completely reverses his procedure; from beginning to end
the chief instrumentalities of the poem are external; its conflicts and
solutions are brought about by powers seemingly beyond human might
and intelligence.
B.It differs, therefore, from every other work of Shakespeare in the
character of its mediation.
C.Our poet, in most of his dramas, portrays the real world and exhibits
man as acting from clear conscious motives, and not from supernatural
influences.
D.It should, however, be classified with As You Like it and Midsummer
Nights Dream, in both of which the ideal world is the grand mediating
principle.
E.The great and striking peculiarity of Shakespeares Tempest play is
that its action lies wholly in the ideal world.
2.
A.When the mission was completed, the shuttle fired engines to reduce
speed and, after descending through the atmosphere, landed like a
glider.
B.Launched by two solid-rocket boosters and an external tank, only the
aircraft-like shuttle entered into orbit around Earth.
C.In 1976, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
unveiled the worlds first reusable manned spacecraft, the Enterprise.
D.Early shuttles took satellite equipment into space and carried out
various scientific experiments.
E.Five years later, space flights of the shuttle began when Columbia
traveled into space on a 54-hour mission.
3.
A.China, however, continues to celebrate the traditional Chinese New
Year, although in a shorter version with a new namethe Spring Festival.
B.Significantly, younger generations of Chinese now observe the holiday
in a very different manner as for some young people, the holiday has
evolved from an opportunity to renew family ties to a chance for
relaxation from work.
C.The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as its been called since the
20th century, remains the most important social and economic holiday in
China.
D.Originally tied to the lunar-solar Chinese calendar, the holiday was a
time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors, It
was also a time to bring the family together for feasting.
E.With the popular adoption in China of the Western calendar in 1912,
the Chinese joined in celebrating January 1 as New Years Day.
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1. E,B,C,A,D 2. C,E,B,A,D 3. C,D,E,A,B

PTE Academic reading re order practice material samples.The text below has
been placed in a random order. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the choices given to construct a paragraph.
1.
A.These are the tepuis (a Pemn Indian word for mountain), the most famous
of which is called Mount Roraima.
B.Deep within in the rainforests of Venezuela, a series of plateaus arise more
than 9000 feet off the ground.
C.From above, they look like islands in the sky.
D.The mystical mountains fascinated explorers and writers for centuries, most
notably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who described an ascent of Mount Roraima in
his 1912 novel The Lost World .
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geography that thousands of plant species exist nowhere else on the planet
except on these plateaus.
2.
A.Legends and peace blend with the lovely atmosphere of this UNESCO World
Heritage site to create one of the most fascinating places of ancient Kyoto,
Japan.
B.Ryanji, translated as Peaceful Dragon Temple, is a Zen Temple located in
the northwestern part of Kyoto, Japan.
C.Apart from this renowned rock garden, the temple also includes a beautiful
wooded garden and a relaxing pond inhabited by ducks and a goddess of good
fortune.
D.Ryanji is recorded to have been established in 1450 by Hosokawa
Katsumoto, the deputy to the Ashikaga shogunate.
E.This well-known temple was built during the 15th century, and is today best
known for its Zen rock garden, which is regarded as the most famous of its kind
in Japan.

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3.
A.In this condition, great numbers lay on the ground, as if there had been a
defeat.
B.In 5th century BC, Xenophon a Greek historian and philosopher wrote
about the effects of the mad honey when he and his army encountered it
while retreating from Babylon and his troops enchanted by the sweet nectar
had more than their fair share in the woods.
C.The next day, none of them died, but recovered their senses about the same
hour as they were seized; and the third and fourth day, they go up as if they
had taken a strong potion.
D.All the soldiers who ate of the honeycombs lost their senses, seized with
vomiting and purging, none of them being able to stand on their legs.
E.Those who ate but a little were like men very drunk, and those who ate much
like madmen, and some like dying persons.
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1. B,C,A,E,D 2.B,E,C,A,D 3. B,D,E,A,C

PTE Academic re order reading practice exercise.The text below have been
placed in a random order. Choose the most logical order of sentences from
among the choices given to construct a paragraph.
1.
A.Amalasunthas life is detailed in three main ancient sources The Secret
History , by Procopius,The Origin and Deeds of the Goths , by Jordanes, and the
letters of Cassiodorus
B.Amalasuntha was a regent of the Ostrogoths who lived during the Late
Antique period, i.e. the 6th century AD.
C.However, the roles women were expected to hold in her time brought about
betrayal and her demise.
D.This was the period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, when Italy
was under the rule of the Ostrogoths.
E.She was a strong and powerful woman who had her wits about her and
made sure she got what she wanted, for as long as possible.
2.
A.Back at Stanford University, Liu, a professor of archaeology, and her students
microscopically analyzed pieces of the residue on the funnel and found
evidence of ancient grains in the form of phytoliths, fossilized plant parts.
B.It was 2012 when archaeologist Li Liu noticed an unusual dark residue inside
a 5000-year-old pottery funnel from Inner Mongolia.
C.The observation left her wondering if the funnel might have been used to
make alcohol.
D.The group determined the grain was millet, a common grain used for
brewing beer.
E.If Lius hunch proved correct, it would represent the oldest evidence of
alcohol production in the Yellow River valley of China.
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1. B,D,E,C,A 2. B,C,E,A,D
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3. PTE Academic re order reading exercise.The text below have been
placed in a random order. Re order paragraphs in the original order.
4. 1.
5. A.There is, however, some evidence that complex urban centers such as
Tell Brak were already being built in ancient Syria at the same time.
6. B.Traditionally, it has been thought that civilization in the Middle East
and the Eastern Mediterranean began in two centers, Sumer in the east
between the Tigris and Euphrates, and Egypt in the west along the Nile.
7. C.The earliest cities are believed to have been built in the flood plains of
southern Mesopotamia during the mid-4th millennium BC.
8. D.Evidence shows that although proto-urban centers appear in the
south first, they also arise very soon afterwards or simultaneously in the
north, suggesting that ancient Syria is another center where civilization
emerged independently, alongside Egypt and Sumer.
9. E.This has led some archaeologists to suggest that civilization began in
the north independently of the southern Mesopotamian centers, or
even before their emergence.
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12.A.California bore the brunt of the damage.
13.B.The only megaflood to strike the American West in recent history
occurred during the winter of 1861-62.
14.C.The Coming Megafloods, wereresponsible for most of the largest
historical floods in many western states.
15.D.The costs were devastating: one quarter of Californias economy was
destroyed, forcing the state into bankruptcy.
16.E.This disaster turned enormous regions of the state into inland seas for
months, and took thousands of human lives.
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18.3.
19.A.To put that number in context, there are now fewer ring-tailed lemurs
living in the wild than there are living in zoos around the world
20.B.According to two worrying new studies, the species population has
fallen to between 2,000 and 2,400 animalsa shocking 95 percent
decrease since the year 2000.
21.C.Factors driving the decline include rapid habitat loss, hunting, and the
illegal pet trade,
22.D.according to a paper published last month in the journal Primate
 Conservation and a second paper published today in Folia Primatologica
23.E.Madagascars beloved ring-tailed lemurs have all but disappeared
from many of the island nations forests.
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25. 1. B,C,A,E,D 2. C,B,A,E,D 3. E,B,A,C,D

PTE Academic re order reading exercise

PTE Academic re order reading exercise.The text below have been placed in a
random order. Re order paragraphs in the original order.
1.
A.However, the theater seems to have been used as a space for something
other than entertainment the experts speculate that it could have been a
religious center instead.
B.A team of researchers have finally found the missing link in the ancient Israeli
city of Hippos-Sussita.
C.Through the discovery of a large theater and a bathhouse, they have
declared it was almost definitely occupied during peacetime.
D.Following discoveries of a large bronze mask of the Greek god Pan and a
monumental gate,
E.they were searching for the last piece of evidence to ascertain the era and
purpose of the rich site.
2. A.Tewksbury spent a short time behind bars before being freed.
B.During the last part of the 19th century, two Arizona ranching families, the
Grahams and Tewksburys, engaged in a long-running bloody battle.
C.The feud came to a violent end with the 1892 murder of Tom Graham, the
last survivor of his family involved in the feud, who was ambushed by Ed
Tewksbury in Tempe, Arizona.
D.That resulted in the deaths of 20 or more people, by some estimates.
E.The exact details of how the so-called Pleasant Valley War was ignited in the
early 1880s are unknown, but accusations of cattle-rustling likely played a role.
3.
A.In spite of the teams name, the squad was born 800 miles west of Harlem in
the south side of Chicago.
B.After a pay dispute, several players bolted the Savoy Big Five in 1928 to form
a new barnstorming team known as the Globe Trotters.
C.In 1926, a group of former basketball players from Chicagos Wendell Phillips
High School reunited to play for the Giles Post American Legion basketball
team that barnstormed around the Midwest.
D.The Harlem Globetrotters originated in Chicago.
E.The following year, the team became known as the Savoy Big Five while
playing home games as pre-dance entertainment at Chicagos newly opened
Savoy Ballroom.
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1. B,D,E,C,A 2. B,D,E,C,A 3. D,A,C,E,B