Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:
- Once they reach a high altitude, they manage to travel all over the world.
- An expert from the team explained that the bacteria usually lived on the surface of vegetation, such as leaves.
- The wind carries them off the surface and into the atmosphere.
- A group of researchers were surprised to find that clouds had carried drug resistant bacteria over a long distance.
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:
- Once they reach a high altitude, they manage to travel all over the world.
- An expert from the team explained that the bacteria usually lived on the surface of vegetation, such as leaves.
- The wind carries them off the surface and into the atmosphere.
- A group of researchers were surprised to find that clouds had carried drug resistant bacteria over a long distance.
Entered answer:
Solution
The passage talks about how bacteria travel globally through atmospheric transport.
Link A (4 → 2): "An expert from the team" specifically references "researchers" from sentence 4, and "the bacteria" continues the topic introduced.
Link B (2 → 3): "Them" and "the surface" in sentence 3 directly refer to "bacteria" and "surface of vegetation" from sentence 2.
Link C (3 → 1): "They" refers back to bacteria, and "high altitude" logically follows "into the atmosphere" from sentence 3.
Introduction: Sentence 4 is the introducing sentence because it presents the researchers' surprising discovery about bacterial transport.
Conclusion: Sentence 1 is the concluding sentence because it describes the final outcome of worldwide bacterial travel.
Assembling: Discovery introduction, expert explanation, wind mechanism, then final global travel outcome creates logical flow.
Hence the correct order is 4231