Exercise: Sentence Order* 1, [1] Learning to ride a unicycle might seem like a daunting task, but with the right kind of training aids, it doesn’t have to be impossible—or even scary. [2] One option isto use a spotter who walks alongside and catches the rider if he or she falls. [3] Another easy way to lear is to find a narrow hallway: riding in a confined space allows the beginning rider to improve balancing. from front-to-back and side-to-side. [4] Likewise, riding between two chairs placed back-to-back teaches the rider how to find a proper starting position. [5] On the other hand, props such as ski poles should not be used because they hinder balance and create dependence. [6] Ifa hall cannot be found, a fence or clothesline can be used as well. 2. [1] For decades, scientists have hoped for a “solar revolution,” a shift from relying on natural gas to heat homes and power cars to harnessing electricity from the sun, [2] The conversion of solar heat into usable energy is accomplished through the use of solar panels—also known as modules—which can be installed directly into the ground, mounted on roofs, or built directly into the walls of a building. [3] Each module is comprised of cells which convert solar radiation into direct current electricity. [4] Solar-powered buildings can even be very large. [5] It’s a tantalizing promise: on sunny days, the sun gives off enormous amounts of energy —enough to power houses, office buildings, and schools. [6] In 2011 the world’s largest solar-powered office building, was constructed, covering over 750,000 square feet 37 Evers coe IMy, ‘What is the best placement for sentence 6? A) Where it is now. B) After sentence 1. ©) After sentence 2. D) After sentence 3. Daron Ee LIRA 9 RE = ' Sentence 4 would most effectively be A) placed after sentence 1. B) placed after sentence 2. ©) placed after sentence 5 D) DELETED from the paragraph, “Because paragraph order is tested so infrequently, questions involving that concept are not included here. An additional example can be found in the practice test, fon p. 234,3. [1] Say the word "sushi." and the first thing that ‘comes to mind is usually an image of raw fish. [2] Initially, the rice was only used to help stat the fermenting process, but food shortages later made the Fice too valuable to be thrown away. [3] But sushi is about rice as well as fish, [4] 1s also the original fast food, dating back (o 700 A.D. in Japan. [5] At that time, nd fish was salted, sandwiched between layers of ri pressed with heavy stones, process that fermented and preserved the fish for months or even years. [6} The curing time was also shortened to three or four weeks, so the fish was closer to being raw when it was ‘consumed. 4, [1] During World War II, Admiral Grace Hopper \vas stationed at Harvard University, where she worked (on IBM's Harvard Mark I computer, the first large-scale computer in the United States. [2] Hopper was only the third person to program this computer, and in 1943, she wrote a manual of operations that lit the path for those fn the compiler, a device that translated English commands who followed her. en, in the 1950s, she invented into computer code, allowing programmers to create code more easily and with fewer error. |] Hopper’s second compiler, the Flow-Matic, was used to program UNIVAC Land I, which were the first computers available commercially. [5] Hopper also oversaw the development of the Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL), one of the fist computer programming languages. ‘To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 should be placed A) where itis now, B) before sentence 4. ©) before sentence 5. D) before sentence 6. ‘The best placement for sentence 4 is A) where it is now B) before sentence | C) before sentence 2. D) before sentence 3. 385, [1 Worldwide an reness of Inuit Art originated with the assistance of James Houston, a noted artist, ‘author and designer For the Steuben Glass Company [21 In the late 1940s, Houston collected 2 number of smmall Init carvings, whieh he then sold to help support the Inuit’s economic needs. [3] In 1953, Houston solicited his friend Eugene Power to help him import Inuit art into the United States. [4] Power, who owned and operated University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, Michigan, established a non-profit gallery called i mo Art Incorporated in Ann Arbor fo import the work. [5] The same year, Power encouraged the Cranbrook Institute of Seience to host the first. exhibition of Inuit Artin the United States. 16] Later, Houston taught the Inuit to make unique stone-cut and sealskin stencil prints, and in 1959, the frst collection of Inuit prints was released at Cape Dorset. 39 The most logi place co begin a new paragraph would be at A) B) ° b) sentence 2, sentence 3 sentence 4. sentence 6.