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:
- Early monitoring in the districts where these measures were introduced shows average nighttime decibel levels dropping enough to be noticeable to residents within the first year.
- In response, several European city councils have begun installing noise-absorbing pavement and rerouting truck traffic away from residential streets during nighttime hours.
- Sustained exposure to these sound levels has been linked in multiple studies to elevated stress hormones, disrupted sleep, and even a higher long-term risk of heart disease.
- In most cities, the bulk of this noise comes from constant traffic, construction equipment, and low-flying aircraft rather than any single dramatic event.
- Air pollution tends to dominate public concern about urban health, while a quieter hazard, chronic noise, often goes largely unmeasured in the same conversations.