Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) My sense of direction wasn't clear, and at first, I didn't know where we were going.

(B) We left the car in the almost empty parking area and walked once more into a world of perfect beauty and harmony.

(C) Besides me, Rick was quiet, though tension showed in his hands on the wheel.

(D) Not until I saw the lighted bell tower of Tlaquepaque did I realize where we were.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Without a pause, he rushed outside to search the vicinity.

(B) When Rick came back, I stared, as though I'd been in a trance.

(C) I followed him into the shop, and just when we stepped inside, a sound came back from the back, as if something had been knocked over in the darkness.

(D) It was a while before he returned, his effort futile.

(E) He ran into the rear rooms, and I waited tensely among the counters, remembering the desecrated blue cloth upstairs.

(F) Rick flicked switches, and the shop blazed with light.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) The boy looked puzzled and disappointed.
(B) As he walked down the path, a Park Service ranger heard him blurt out to his mother, "But it looks just like Grandma's house!"
(C) It does, and it did.
(D) In $1980$, when the Eisenhower Gettysburg farm was opened to the public, a young boy and his mother emerged after a tour of the stone and brick house on the edge of the Civil War battlefield.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) "Johnny, how do you keep so lean?"
(B) Mr. Leventine did not lunch there either-anyone thinking of inviting him would have been quietly persuaded not to by the club secretary, "as they would with me," John could have said, for a different reason."
(C) Mr. Leventine had once lamented. John gritted his teeth.
(D) The Bengal club had the best food east of Suez and a renowned wine cellar.
(E) "Sweat,” said John, “and I don't lunch at the Bengal Club."
(F) He detested the nickname.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) He was arriving tomorrow and she hadn't finished her program.
(B) The school inspector.
(C) Too late.
(D) She snuggled down in her bed, hoping to push the worry away for a little longer.
(E) She knew there was something unpleasant in her memory and that it would be in her consciousness in seconds.
(F) Sally Jones opened her eyes at seven a.m. that May $8$ and looked at the rust stain on the ceiling.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) It was the school inspector and another person, unknown to them.
(B) A car pulled up, and two men got out and walked toward the little group.
(C) Sally was reading aloud.
(D) Magpies called from the pepper tree and, high above, an eagle circled, watching for prey, barely moving its wings.
(E) Later that day, the children and their teacher were sitting on the grass in the warm winter sun.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Gabrielle Lord published her first novel, Fortress, to instant acclaim in her native Australia.
(B) The eldest of six children, she grew up in Sydney and attended the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales.
(C) Success did not come easily, however.
(D) Writing appealed to her even as a child-she was composing stories at nine.
(E) But it wasn't until she was thirty that she completed her first book, a literary novel that was rejected by every publishing firm to which it was sent.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) I can still hear Mother calling from the staircase landing, "Mary, is your light out?
(B) Then I would set the alarm so that in the morning I could get up early, fix a cup of hot cocoa and snuggle back in bed for a blissful hour with my current book.
(C) Yes, it was--but the streetlight in front of my window threw a very satisfactory beam on my pillow, and most evenings I would manage to sneak in a little extra reading.
(D) It was heaven!

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) From halfway up that hill, one can see on the clear autumn day most of the majesty that is Washington.
(B) Across the muddy Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial a gentle slope rises gradually to what was once the home of Robert E. Lee.
(C) The three marble monuments and memorials to the men who forged in the Presidency an instrument of power and compassion-remind a grateful nation that it has been blessed in its gravest trials with its greatest leaders.
(D) In the distance, the dome of the capital covers a milieu of wisdom and folly, Presidential ambitions and antagonisms, political ideals and ideologies.