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Re-order Paragraphs

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Pearson Test of English — TestDayTwin Practice
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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. Such evidence has led sleep specialists to recommend uninterrupted rest as a critical, rather than optional, component of effective learning.
  2. Building on this finding, scientists discovered that interrupting deep sleep in test subjects significantly impaired their ability to recall material learned earlier that day.
  3. This heightened activity appears to be linked to memory consolidation, the process by which the brain transfers information from short-term to long-term storage.
  4. Recent studies using overnight brain scans have overturned this assumption, revealing that certain regions become more active during deep sleep than during waking hours.
  5. For decades, researchers assumed that the brain was largely inactive during sleep, simply resting after a day of processing information.