a. Habeas corpus, a law by which as prisoner could demand to be brought before the courts and have his case heard,  was a well-established right in England, but the authorities had found a ways of getting around its use where political prisoners were concerned.

在生词多的时候，一定需要注意：段落的结构和感情色彩。结构上来说，前面抛出一个概念，后面接了一个but，说明逻辑或语义上有转折。再看看前后的修饰词，前面有well-established表褒义，后面有concerned表负面, 从感情色彩来说，也是一正一反。

假如一个生词都不认识的情况下，通过结构和感情色彩，也可以领会整句的意思： 一个law对prisoner很好，但是这些人还是对这个law有担心。所以整句是偏贬义。

b. The new act put a stop to such abuses and deprived the executive of powers it might have used to support oppressive and arbitrary governments.

这里讲一个新act，通过之前找感情色彩的方法，既然他可以stop abuses，说明整句是褒义。信号词such abuses， 说明这句前面得出现贬义内容。

c. In 1679, what became known as the first Exclusionist Parliament passed at least one useful piece of legislation: on the day parliament was suspended, the King gave his assent to a Habeas Corpus Act.

这句给出一个时间线索，整体介绍通过了一个legislation，叫做其他几句话里面提过的Habeas Corpus, 说明这句可能是打头句。

d. James Harrington, the philosopher, is a good example. when his sisters applied for Habeas corpus, he was taken from the Tower of London to a barren island where habeas corpus could not be imposed.

举了一个人的例子，说他们想要apply这个Habeas Corpus时候， 发生了一些事情，最后could not猜测出结果没有成功。感情色彩任然是贬义。

通常来说，给出一个例子是要论证前一句的观点。所以贬义的例子一般跟在贬义的论点后。综上，c句是概括句，语义中性。b句在说新的act, 并且语义褒义。所以这句只能跟在a后面。

综上所述，正确答案就是： cadb

PTE测试的是综合能力，如果你没有耐性每天安排时间专门背单词，那何尝不在练习听说读写时候一起把单词，collocation(词组搭配），同义词一起记了。

这篇Re-order有以下表达：

get around: 逃避，规避。在原wen第一段处可以理解成虽然Habeas corpus(人身保护令）可以对政治犯起到保护作用，但是在不少灰色情况下它可以被规避掉，这也是许多政治犯担心的原因。近义词： circumvent

deprive: 剥夺。这是替换take something away from someone的好词，通常是负面感情比较浓。活学活用，例如科技类的essay, 想要批判说电子产品剥夺人们时间： xx alienates family members by depriving their time and attention which can be otherwise given to each other.

arbitrary government: 专制的。通常搭配强势力，例如管理或者政府层面。反义词： democratic。 近义词： autocratic, bureaucratic

assent to: 同意。可以近似理解成agree, 但是如果说批准某个项目或者法案，正式表达用assent to. 近义词组：consent to

impose: 施加，征税。一般表主动时候介词是跟on。段落中表被动，是指人身保护令只在特定地区有效。政治犯被带去孤岛到上面后人身保护令就不能生效了。

例如第一句话就很适合当做练习材料，/的地方小停顿表示划分群组，加粗部分表示重音,斜体表示上升音调：

Habeas corpus, /a law by which as prisoner could demand to be brought before the courts and have his case heard,/  was a well-established right in England, /but the authorities had found a ways of getting around its use/ where political prisoners were concerned.

多练几遍以后里面的生词和collocation也自然就记住了。

这就是有效地利用一道Re-order的题来练习单词积累和搭配，并且还能作为Read Aloud的材料以达到事半功倍的效果！