English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 44

Organizing through a Combination of Time Order and Emphatic Order
Use a combination of time and emphatic order to arrange the scrambled list of sentences below. Write the number 1 beside the point that all the other sentences support. Then number each supporting sentence. Paying close attention to transitional words and phrases will help you organize and connect the supporting sentences.
________ I did not see the spider but visited my friend in the hospital, where he suffered through a week of nausea and dizziness because of the poison.
________ We were listening to the radio when we discovered that nature was calling.
________ As I got back into the car, I sensed, rather than felt or saw, a presence on my left hand.
________ After these two experiences, I suspect that my fear of spiders will be with me until I die.
________ The first experience was the time when my best friend received a bite from a black widow spider.
________ I looked down at my hand, but I could not see anything because it was so dark.
________ I had two experiences when I was sixteen that are the cause of my arachnophobia, a terrible and uncontrollable fear of spiders.
________ We stopped the car at the side of the road, walked into the woods a few feet, and watered the leaves.
________ My friend then entered the car, putting on the dashboard light, and I almost passed out with horror.
________ I saw the bandage on his hand and the puffy swelling when the bandage was removed.
________ Then it flew off my hand and into the dark bushes nearby.
________ I sat in the car for an hour afterward, shaking and sweating and constantly rubbing the fingers of my hand to reassure myself that the spider was no longer there.
________ But my more dramatic experience with spiders happened one evening when another friend and I were driving around in his car.
________ Almost completely covering my fingers was a monstrous brown spider, with white stripes running down each of a seemingly endless number of long, furry legs.
________ Most of all, I saw the ugly red scab on his hand and the yellow pus that continued oozing from under the scab for several weeks.
________ I imagined my entire hand soon disappearing as the behemoth relentlessly devoured it.
________ At the same time, I cried out "Arghh!" and flicked my hand violently back and forth to shake off the spider.
________ For a long, horrible second it clung stickily, as if intertwined for good among the fingers of my hand.