PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Consequently, most lighthouses today operate unmanned, and the keeper's job has become little more than a historical curiosity.
- When electric bulbs and automated timers were introduced in the twentieth century, the need for someone to tend the flame by hand began to disappear.
- This routine often meant weeks of isolation on remote rocks or islands, far from family and ordinary conveniences.
- Each evening, a keeper would climb the tower's spiral staircase to light the lamp and ensure it stayed lit until sunrise.
- For centuries, lighthouse keepers were entrusted with guiding ships safely past treacherous coastlines.