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:

  1. The lesson organizers drew was that consistent structural intervention outperformed even the most enthusiastic one-day effort.
  2. Within three years of that change, water samples showed a marked drop in debris and the first confirmed fish sighting in over twenty years.
  3. Organizers later switched to installing floating barriers upstream that funneled trash toward collection points before it could sink or scatter.
  4. Early cleanup efforts relied on occasional volunteer days, which removed visible litter but left the deeper, waterlogged debris untouched.
  5. A river running through one industrial town had grown so choked with debris that fish had not been sighted there in decades.