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:
- Electric bulbs eventually replaced gas flames altogether, but the basic promise of the streetlight, that a city need not go dark simply because the sun has set, was already well established by then.
- Streets that stayed lit after dusk quickly became safer and busier, and shops, theatres, and cafes began extending their hours to take advantage of the new evening trade.
- The invention of gas lighting in the early 1800s replaced these oil lamps with a brighter, steadier flame that could illuminate an entire street from a single network of underground pipes.
- Municipal authorities eventually addressed this by installing oil lamps at regular intervals along major thoroughfares, hiring lamplighters whose sole job was to light and extinguish them each day.
- Before the seventeenth century, most city streets after dark were lit only by whatever lantern a passer-by happened to carry, leaving alleys and squares in near-total darkness once the sun went down.