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Re-order Paragraphs

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Pearson Test of English — TestDayTwin Practice
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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into a logical order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. His invention kept reliable time at sea, finally allowing navigators to pinpoint their position with confidence.
  2. In the 1760s, a self-taught carpenter named John Harrison solved this by building a compact, spring-driven timepiece.
  3. Early pendulum clocks, however, lost all accuracy on a rolling, swaying ship.
  4. The problem was that calculating longitude required knowing the exact time at a fixed reference point back home.
  5. For centuries, sailors crossing the open ocean struggled to determine how far east or west they had travelled.