PTE Reading

Re-order Paragraphs

PTE · Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into a logical order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. Understanding these stages has therefore reshaped how doctors think about everything from memory to long-term brain health.
  2. Researchers believe this nightly cleaning helps explain why a single sleepless night leaves people foggy and forgetful.
  3. One of these stages, known as deep slow-wave sleep, appears to be when the brain clears out metabolic waste that builds up while we are awake.
  4. Modern recordings of brain activity, however, show that it cycles through several distinct and highly active stages each night.
  5. Sleep was long treated as a passive state in which the brain simply switched off to rest.

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