Question 156
MediumOriginal questionArrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. So forest workers fixed thousands of cameras to trees along animal paths.
Q. Each tiger's stripes are different, like a fingerprint, so every photo could be matched to one animal.
R. The government wanted to know how many tigers were left in India's forests.
S. Counting them by sight was impossible, since tigers hide and move at night.
T. The count in 2022 found more than three thousand tigers, about three-quarters of all the wild tigers in the world.
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
Explanation
R opens with the question. S says why counting by sight was impossible.
P is the answer with "so": cameras. Q explains how each photo is matched, and T gives the result.
So the order is RSPQT.
Worth noting
RSQPT explains the stripes before any photos have been taken.
- Concept
- Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
- Typical timeTypical
- 90 s
- Your timeYours
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