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:
- Households today simply load a machine and press a button, a convenience that would have seemed miraculous to anyone doing laundry by hand a century ago.
- Electric motors were added to these machines early in the twentieth century, turning what had been an all-day chore into a task that ran largely on its own.
- By the late 1800s, hand-cranked machines appeared that agitated clothes inside a tub, sparing users much of the physical scrubbing altogether.
- This backbreaking labor eventually gave way to the washboard, a ridged wooden or metal surface that let launderers scrub more efficiently without kneeling at a riverbank.
- For centuries, washing clothes meant carrying them to a river or communal basin and scrubbing the fabric by hand against stones or ridged boards.