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

(A) When the sand has run through from one glass vessel to the other, the egg is hardboiled.

(B) Today, if you want to boil an egg for three minutes and you have an egg-timer or three minute sandglass, you cannot really go wrong.

(C) Start the sand 'clock' as soon as you have dropped the egg into boiling water in the fire.

(D) But if you are impatient and do not wait for the sand to run right through, you will have to eat a rather gooey' egg.

(E) If, on the other hand, the egg keeps boiling after the sandglass has run through, you will have to chew a very hard-boiled egg indeed!

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

(A) It was taken from the French word Cloche which means a bell.

(B) French was widely spoken by the English upper classes, and many English words were borrowed from it.

(C) In fact, even before mechanical clocks existed, churches and monasteries rang bells to tell the common folk that it was time for prayers.

(D) Bells were, therefore, associated with clocks in those early days of mechanical timekeeping

(E) The word 'clock' or 'cloch' as it was called in Middle English, goes back to this time.

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

(A) With the twentieth century, time had to be much more exact.

(B)After all, it had to keep pace with the new science and technology that was sweeping the modem world

(C) Even one-hundredth of a second mattered in fields like astronomy

(D) Accuracy no longer meant keeping time to the half-minute or even second,

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

(A) These were really our earliest calendars.

(B) They simply used sticks with crude notches in them to count the days, or strings with knots in them to keep a record of so many full moons or even seasons.

(C) In those far-off days, there were no fancy calendars like the one you have hung up in your room to keep track of the year.

(D) They probably called a number of days so many dawns' or 'suns'.

(E) Ancient tribes used a dawn-to-dawn reckoning to count the days.

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

(A) Every calendar welcomes the first day of the year as the 'NEW YEAR'. This is one of the oldest and gayest customs of mankind and is celebrated the world over.

(B) New Year's day is a great time for parties and reunions that ring out the old year and ring in the new one.

(C) It is a time to make New Year ‘resolutions as well, though these are soon forgotten!

(D) In the bigger cities of the world, many people collect in a big square to welcome the New Year. They greet each other and embrace each other.

(E) In London, Trafalgar Square is the traditional gathering place, while Times Square is popular in New York.

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

(A) At sixteen, Mamie was something of a knock-out.

(B) She had wide blue eyes, a pert nose, soft brown hair worn long with a dip over her high forehead, and one of the most infectious smiles around.

(C) As the prettiest Doud girl, she drew many young men to the house on Saturday afternoons and Sunday evenings, when they would gather around the piano to sing

(D) All this was coupled with a gaiety of personality and, honesty, and a directness that were most appealing,

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

(A) He was about to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

(B) In $1948$, he would assume the presidency of Columbia.

(C) Precisely at four o'clock on a snowy February afternoon in $1947$, Dwight David Eisenhower, in full military uniform, walked down the aisle in the great rotunda of Law Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York City.

(D) In $1945$, he had returned in triumph from Europe, where he had served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces.

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

(A) After all, he was only a soldier and a poor boy, and everybody felt he was marrying above his 'class'.

(B) and people felt she could have done a good deal better.

(C) "The Douds were well off financially,"

(D) When the engagement of Dwight David Eisen- hower and Mamie Doud was announced in Denver, neighbours were astounded at Mamie's choice.

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

(A) At the end of their lives, it could truly be said that they loved each other more than on the day they first met

(B) Yet the steadfast devotion and mutual respect of the general and his lady carried them through the travails of World War II and on to the triumphs of the White House

(C) Ike and Mamie had no such misgivings as they took their vows throughout their warm and loving marriage of almost fifty-three years.

(D) Innumerable army-ordered separations, the tragic loss of their first son, and the rumors on two continents of Ike's involvement with another woman were almost devastating.

(E) The way was not always smooth.