Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Nearly $24$ hours after the snafu, Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel broke his silence on the shocking moment with a few words on his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live.

(b) “I don’t know if you know this but I hosted the Oscars last night,” Kimmel quipped, opening his ABC show.

(c) La La Land was incorrectly named the Best Picture when Moonlight was really the winner.

(d) In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Oscars were rocked by an epic mistake on Sunday night.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Thus, they are more at risk for adult health problems such as heart disease, type  $2$ diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

(b) According to an article in The New York Times all of these health effects are contributing to a shorter lifespan of five years for these obese children.

(c) One study showed that children who became obese as early as age $2$ were more likely to be obese as adults.

(d) Children who are obese are likely to be obese as adults.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Not a bad legacy for a man who, after his first studio went belly up, placed his career in the hands of a cartoon mouse.

(b) While he was at it, he built fantastical amusement parks, developed a brand recognised by children and adults all over the world, and created an educational foundation for future entertainment innovators.

(c) The Walt Disney Company, which reported more than $\$38$ billion in revenue in $2010$, was started by a high-school dropout who loved to draw and had a passion for learning.

(d) Walt Disney founded an empire on fantasy and risk taking.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) The Land of Morning Calm is rapidly becoming one of Asia’s most popular destinations.

(b) Since then an Olympics and a World Cup have kickstarted a vibrant modern economy.

c) South Korea’s rise has been nothing short of meteoric after breaking from military dictatorship in the $80\mathrm{s}$.

(d) Almost every year South Korea or Seoul features on top ten lists of the best places to visit, and with good reason.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) But even as the vote pushed the bill past its latest test, it set up a critical few hours in which Republicans will have to address serious and at times contradictory criticism of the bill from their own caucus, with zero chance of support from Democrats.

(b) Senate Republican leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief on Wednesday as all $52$ GOP senators voted to begin debate on the tax reform bill.

(c) For Republicans, time is of the essence.

(d) If they do not pass the tax reform bill this week, it will be sidelined by next week’s legislative struggle to secure funding to avoid a government shutdown.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Hydraulic fracturing occurs when the effective stress is reduced sufficiently by an increase in the pressure of fluids within the rock, such that the minimum principal stress becomes tensile and exceeds the tensile strength of the material.

(b) This is particularly so in the case of “tensile” fractures which require the walls of the fracture to move apart, working against this confining pressure.

(c) Fracturing in rocks at depth, tends to be suppressed by the confining pressure due to the load caused by the overlying rock strata.

(d) Fractures formed in this way will be oriented in a plane perpendicular to the minimum principal stress, and for this reason, induced hydraulic fractures in wellbores are sometimes used to determine the orientation of stresses.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Great players end their careers with anywhere from 25 to 50 such scores.

(b) Every sport has record breakers, but of his contemporaries, only Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong and prescandal Tiger Woods come anywhere close to matching him in redefining the realms of possibility.

(c) In cricket, a batsman who hits a century, or a “ton”-- another term for a 100-plus-run innings--displays the most consistent measure of batting prowess.

(d) Tendulkar’s ton of tons is beyond great.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) In recent years, with the master crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, Swinston or another veteran often led students and company dancers through the steps.

(b) A little before $6$ p.m., some $40$ current and former dancers, in warm-up clothes or street garb, drifted onto the wooden floor.

(c) As a pianist picked out strains of Bach, Robert Swinston, a longtime Cunningham dancer who was also the choreographer’s assistant, held an abbreviated class in Cunningham technique.

(d) On July $27$, the day after the choreographer Merce Cunningham died, there was an open house at the West Village studio in which his dance company has operated since $1971$.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) The fork is held with the left hand and the knife is held with the right.

(b) When no knife is being used, the fork can be held with the tines up.

(c) The fork is held generally with the tines down using the knife to cut food or help guide food on to the fork.

(d) With the tines up, the fork balances on the side of the index finger, held in place with the thumb and index finger.