PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
PTE · Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Strangely, this gloom also left a cultural mark, as the dreary, housebound weather inspired Mary Shelley to begin writing her novel Frankenstein.
- The resulting food shortages drove up prices and forced thousands of families to abandon their farms in search of better land.
- This material spread across the globe and dimmed the sun, lowering temperatures and triggering crop failures from New England to the Swiss Alps.
- The cause lay on the other side of the world: the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year had hurled enormous quantities of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere.
- In 1816, much of Europe and North America experienced what came to be known as the "Year Without a Summer," a period of bizarre and devastating weather.
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