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01. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order. [DB’22, JB'17]
(a) He asked him where God is.
(b) Once a lad went to a famous teacher.
(c) The teacher thought highly of the boy's understanding,
(d) The lad replied that he would answer if he would tell where he is not.
(©) He begged to instruct him in the arts and sciences.
(0) He urged to teach the lad.
(g) He expressed his desire to acquire knowledge.
(h) The teacher wished to find out the ability of the boy.
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02, Re-arrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
[BB°22]
(@) Haji Mohsin took him to another room and opened a box.
(b) Haji Mohsin woke up and caught hold of the thief
(©) The box was full of gold and money.
(@ He took pity with the poor man,
(c) He was famous for his kindness.
(f) Haji Mohsin helped the poor and the helpless people with food and clothes.
(g) A thief entered into his bedroom one night.
(b) The man said, "Sir, I am very poor, Ihave no food in my house”,
03. The following sentences are jumbled, Rearrange them in a proper sequence. (Ctg.B, Din.B’22, CB’19]
(@) He wrote a lot of poems, songs-gazals, short stories, poems, novels, etc.
(b) He lost his father at the age of eight and at the age of eleven he showed his poetic genius.
(©) At the age of nineteen, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier to the fight in the First World War.
(4) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen,
(e) It was tragic that he had been suffering from a fatal disease since 1942 and remained paralyzed for the
rest of his life.
(O) In 1924 he married Promila in Kolkata,
(g) Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata in 1972.
(h) Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 in the district of Burdwan in West Bengal.
04. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) In 1994, Mandela was elected as the first black president of Africa
(b) After passing nearly three decades, he was freed.
(©) Nelson Mandela, the black leader understood the fact.
(@ Finally, he left his public life in 2004 and worldly life in 2013.
(©) White domination in South Aftica was a very inhuman practice.
(®) So, he was arrested and sent behind the prison bar.
(8) He raised his voice against the cruelties of apartheid.
(h) The white African leader F.W. de Klerk negotiated the end of racism.
[cB’22)
05. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Rearrange them ina proper sequence. __[JB’22]
(@) MRT Line-6 is the first line to be approved from Uttara to Motijheel covering a length of 20 km.
(b) This project is being developed by the Dhaka Mass Transit Company.
(©) Moreover, this Metro Rail Project will have 16 elevated stations in total,
(A) Indeed, the initiative will uplift the traffic system to an internationally advanced level.
(©) Itis projected to serve 60,000 passengers per hour.
(8) The Dhaka Metro Rail Project’ is a wise and far-sighted initi
(g) It will also reduce the existing traffic jams to a great extent.
(h) A total of five lines, MRT 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 have been proposed for this project.
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06. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order. IMB’22, CB'17|
(a) As Bagerhat is near the Bay of Bengal, the water is usually saline.
(b) Khan Jahan Ali was a philanthropic man.
(©) He, therefore, excavated many tanks to provide fresh water to the people.
(4) He came to Bagerhat to preach Islam and to promote the plight of common people.
(©) He found Bagerhat beset with many problems.
(8) His memory will never be sunk into oblivion.
(g) Thus he redressed the problem of drinking water.
(b) The scareity of drinking water is one of them.
07. ‘The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence. [RB’22, DB, BB'17]
(@) A number of people applied for the job.
(b) They came through a passage where gold coins were kept.
(©) Once there lived a Sultan in a country.
(@) Then he invited applications.
(©) When they all arrived, the Sultan asked them to dance.
(f) He wanted to appoint an honest man as his tax collector.
(g) The applicants were asked to meet the Sultan one by one.
(h) So, he asked for the wise counsellor’s advice.
08. Rearrange the following jumbled sentences to make a coherent order. ISB’22]
(a) Due to this drastic change, people cannot decide what appropriately to do to fight this danger,
(b) We are witnessing a serious education crisis that was once beyond imagination.
(©) Because of the inconceivable Covid-19 disaster, the entire world is passing a very difficult time.
(d) They also find difficulties keeping pace with this change
(©) This disaster has changed the world scenario drastically.
(O The hope is that with the problems, some prospects are also appearing.
(g) Our education sector is undergoing the same critical condition.
(h) However, there is a ray of hope.
09. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Rearrange in a proper order. (DB"19]
(a) All the servants were called and interrogated.
(b) In order to find out the thief, the judge chalked out an intelligent plan.
(©) Once a gold necklace was lost from a rich man’s house
(@) The servants were summoned to the court but they denied having stolen the necklace.
(©) When the servants came to the court the next day, the thief had already cut off an inch of his stick.
() But nobody confessed their guilt,
(g) So the owner of the house lodged a complaint in the court.
(h) The judge found one of the sticks shorter than the others and in this way he could easily catch the thief.
(i) Naturally it was suspected that one of the servants had stolen the necklace.
(He gave each of the suspects a stick of equal length and said that one of the sticks would increase by an
inch the next day,
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10, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) He showed extraordinary credit in every examination of the school.
(b) He has made great contribution to the scientific research of Bangladesh.
(c) Dr. Kudrat-e-Khuda was born on 8th May at village Maragra in the district of Birbhum in West Bengal in
1900 AD.
(@) In 1925 getting star marks he passed M.Sc in Chemistry from Kolkata Varsity.
(e) He died on 3rd November in 1977.
(®) His father Hazrat Shah Abdul Mukit was a pious man.
(g) In 1929 he passed D.Sc from Imperial College in England.
(h) Atthe age of six, he was admitted into a Furkania Madrasa and then he was admitted into an Engl
(i) He made a great plan to give the new structure of education system,
(j) In 1953, he was appointed Chairman of Secondary Education Board.
IRB'19)
School.
11. Rearrange the following jumbled sentences to make a proper sequence. [BB°19]
(a) The last words of the speech are: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth.”
(b) Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States of America.
(©) On the 10th November 1863. a railway train was carrying him to a place called Gettysburg.
(@) Itis one of the finest and shortest speeches in English language.
(@) He was going there to speak at a meeting.
(8) On the envelope, it was what he was going to say at the meeting.
(g) These words tell us what the best possible way of ruling a country is.
(h) He was not writing on a paper, but on the back of an envelope.
Inthe train, he was busy with writing something,
(}) In fact, the speech on the envelope is now famous as “Gettysburg Address”.
12. The following sentences are jumbled. Re-arrange them in proper sequence.
(a) One day he was very hungry.
(b) The grapes were too high for him to reach.
(©) Again and again he jumped.
(@) At last he entered into a vineyard.
(©) Once upon a time, there lived a fox in a forest.
(© But each time, he failed to reach the grapes.
(g) At last being tired, he went away saying that the grapes were sour.
(h) He took a run and jumped to reach the bunch of grapes but could not reach it,
(i) He searched food everywhere but he did get any food.
(i) There were ripe grapes hanging up on the vine.
{SB’19]
13. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The king was fond of knowing his future from the astrologer.
(b) The king called him to the palace,
(0) Atthis king got furious and condemned him to death.
(4) A good astrologer visited the capital of the king.
(©) Once there was a ki
(With ready wit he said, “The stars declare that I'll die only a week before your death”.
(g) But another thought crossed his mind before the astrologer was removed for execution.
(h) The king then asked, “How long would you like to live?”
(ji). The astrologer told something very unpleasant,
(j) He then thought for a while some ways of escape.
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14. The following sentences are jumbled, Rearrange them in a proper sentence. [Din.B’19
(a) During his stay he received an unpaid letter from his friend, which contained nothing but some words.
(b) With a great hope in mind, he opened the box.
(©) He wanted to teach his friend a good lesson.
(d) An English poet was staying in Italy for the benefit of his health
(€) To his utter surprise, he found nothing but an ordinary stone.
(8) Thus, the poet taught his friend a good lesson.
(g) So, he procured a heavy stone and packed it up in a fine box.
(h) His friend thought that the contents of the parcel were valuable, so, he paid the heavy charge for carrying.
(i) The poet had to pay double postage, so, he became very annoyed.
G)_ Then he sent it to his friend with the words on it “Carriage to be paid on delivery”.
15, The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in proper sequence.
(a) They were aliens in their own country and were subjected to all sorts of indignities.
(b) The blacks were treated cruelly.
(©) The great leader vowed to put an end to the inhuman practice.
(@) They were denied all basic human rights.
(©) Even dogs received a much better treatment than the blacks.
(© Eventually, the great leader realized the goal of liberating his own people.
(g) He was thrown behind the prison bar.
(h) Nelson Mandela was the greatest leader of South Aftica.
(i) _ But the oppressive rulers could not break the spirit.
()_ In fact, he was one of the greatest leaders of the world who struggled against apartheid throughout his
whole life.
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16. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order. [RB’17]
(a) Asa result, he studied under a great thinker Plato.
(b) He also wrote books on Biology, Literature, Economics and Comparative Politics,
(©) Plato taught Aristotle according to his own way.
(@) Aristotle was bom in Greece.
(©) His father wanted him to be a physician but he never cherished to be so.
(f) Later on, Aristotle took the pen to write on topics suitable for human civilization,
(g) He is called the father of Biology because of his creativity.
(h) ‘Polities' is one of his famous books which expose fullest development of his wisdom.
(i) He was the son of a royal physician,
G) He wanted to be a free thinker.
17, The sentences are jumbled, Rearrange them in proper sequence, [Cig.B171
(a) He was one of the most renowned linguists of Bangladesh.
(b) He died in 1969 and we remember him with respect.
(©) He was second to none in Bengali Language and Literature,
(d) Dr. Mohammad Shahidullah was born in 24 Porgona, West Bengal in 1885.
(e) He joined Jessore Zilla School in 1910.
(He passed the entrance and FA exam. in 1904 and 1906,
(g) He received some awards and contributed much to Bengali Literature,
(h) He passed Hons. and M.A. in 1910 and 1912.
(@ He joined Dhaka University as a Lecturer of Bengali in 1921.
@)_ He got his Ph.D. in 1928. HSG Model Test 2023 \\\ English 1st Paper: Rearranging 4
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(a) One prize is awarded in each field.
(b) The prize is instituted by a man who was the inventor of the science of destruction,
(©) Nobel prize is the world’s most important prize.
(d) Heis Alfred Bernard Nobel.
(©) Though he is a citizen of Sweden, he was educated in Russia.
(f) Nobel prizes are awarded every one for outstanding achievements in the field of science, literature and
for promoting world’s peace.
(g) The prize is given to persons with most outstanding contribution.
(h) If there are more than one recipient of the prize in one field, the prize money is equally distributed
amongst all the winners.
(i) Economics was added in the list in 1969 for the first time.
(i) He was born in Stockholm on 21* October, 1833 and he died on 10% December, 1896.
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order. [Din.B’17)
(a) “Please let me go to my,country.”
(b) An English boy was making a small boat.
(©) “Tshall cross the sea and go to my country by this boat.”
(@) He made all arrangements to send him to his country
(©) Suddenly he noticed a wonderful thing.
(0) Napoleon was charmed by the words of the small boy
(g) “Thaven’t seen my mother for a long time.”
(h) The boy said, “My country is on the other side of the sea.”
(One day Napoleon, the king of France, was walking along the sea shore.
(The boy was brought before him and he asked him what he would do with such a small boat.
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Board Standard Practice Question
01, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) This dauntless spider climbed the ceiling after some unsuccessful attempts, inspiring Bruce to shake off
the darkness of despair.
(b) The enemies were defeated and Bruce regained his kingdom,
(©) The spider failed again and again to succeed but did not give up hope.
(4) Once, Bruce was lying in the cave and saw a spider trying hard to reach the ceiling.
(©) He gathered an army of strong men and attacked his enemies.
(f) The king fought bravely but lost the battle,
(g) Robert Bruce was a famous king.
(h) He had to flee from his kingdom and took shelter in a remote eave to save his life.
(i Enemies invaded his kingdom,
(j) The king was always in a gloomy state for his unhappy condition.
02. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The authority sent an under aged boy named Jerry.
(b) The writer had been trying hard to put a finish to an extremely difficult literary work.
(©) Finding no other way, she requested the orphanage authority to send someone to the cabin, who could
chop well.
(@) Jerry looked so small in size that the writer felt hesitated to appoint him for doing a heavy job like
chopping.
(©) So, she unwillingly appointed him to see what he could do,
(f) For this purpose, she badly needed a very lonely place.
(g) This situation caused her to look for fire-wood which was available there but not ready for fire.
(h) With this end in view, she hired a cabin which belonged to an orphanage on the Carolina Mountains.
(@ But the boy insisted on his doing the job.
(twas a very cold place.
03. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order,
(a) Porus came forward with his people and fought courageously, but unfortunately, he was defeated in the
battle.
(b) Alexander, the conqueror of the world, once crossed the Khyber Pass and reached India.
(©) Alexander was pleased with Porus for his prompt and bold reply and allowed him to rule his country as
j before.
(@) "Like a king” was the reply of Porus.
(6) Then he came to the plain of the Punjab.
(0) There ruled a king called Porus.
(g) He wanted to conquer the land of Porus. .
(h) Then he was taken prisoner by the soldiers of Alexan =e
(j) Alexander asked him how he would like fo be treated by him.
(j) He was brought before Alexander.
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04, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The grocer sent his son with the fruit-seller.
(b) "Just the same way as mice can eat away the balance and weights," said the fruit-seller.
(©) Then one day, the fruit-seller said to the grocer, "I am going to the town to do some shopping. Please,
send your son with me to carry my things."
(d) "You liar, how can a crow carry away such a big boy?” the grocer shouted angrily.
(©) After a few days, when the fruit-seller asked the grocer to retum his balance and weights, the grocer
said, "The mice ate away your balance and weights. So, I can't return them."
(© The next day, the fruit-seller came back alone from the town.
(g) One day, a grocer borrowed a balance and weights from a fruit-seller.
(h) "Where is my son?" asked the grocer.
(i) The lame excuse of the dishonest grocer made the fruit- seller very angry.
"A crow carried your son away," replied the fruit-seller.
05, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@) He bought a cat to kill the mice.
(b) They were doing a lot of mischief there.
(©) There lived a number of mice in an old house.
(@ All the mice thanked the young mouse for his plan.
(e) Several proposals were made but none of the proposals was good.
(© The master of the house was very annoyed and made a plan to get rid of them.
(g) The mice were in great difficulty, because they could not move freely as before.
(h) They held a meeting to discuss the matter and find a way to be free from this danger.
(i) At last, a young mouse rose to speak and said, "I have a good plan for your consideration. Let us tie a
ell round the cat's neck. Then we will hear him coming and be able to hide ourselves in time."
() But an old mouse stood up and said, "No doubt, the idea is good. But who will tie the bell?”
06. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The lion laughed and said, "O you! Are you suitable to help me?"
(b) The lion also said, "You are small in size but really worthy."
(c) "Many thanks to you. You have saved my life," said the lion,
(d) The lion caught the mouse and it began to tremble in fear.
(©) Once, a lion was sleeping in a cave.
(0) Listening to this, the mouse came swiftly and found the lion in a trap.
(g) At that time, a mouse fell upon its body while playing.
(h) After some days, the lion fell into a trap and was crying loudly for help.
(j) The mouse remembered his promise and cut the net into pieces and let the lion come out.
() The mouse said, "Let me go now; sooner or later, I may help you." trtsien Ule SMEs \\ \\_English 1st Paper: Rearranging
07. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
{@) Atone moment, a huge ice-berg was spotted very close tothe ship andthe great ship tuned sharply to
avoid a collision,
(b) Itwas April 10, 1912.
(c) She was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew of 891
(@) The Titanic was sailing for New York from Southampton of England.
(c) Four days after setting out, a great disaster happened when the Titanic was sailing across the icy waters
of the North Atlantic,
(8) The Captain went down to see what had happened.
(g) So, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking down rapidly.
(h) Five of the ship's sixteen watertight compartments were totally damaged by the collision.
(i) Suddenly, there was a slight trembling sound from below.
G)_At that time, she was the largest ship in the world built in a special way and was regarded as unsinkable.
08. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@) His friends and disciples could not bear the sight.
(b) The cup contained hemlock, a deadly poison.
(©) At last, the hour of departure had arrived and Socrates met his friends and disciples for the last time.
(d) They burst into tears and eried loudly
(e) He asked them to let him die in peace.
(© At sunset, the Governor of the prison came,
(g) Then there came a man with a cup in hand,
(h) He argued with them about the immortality of the soul.
(® He told them that the soul of man cannot die.
(J) Socrates took the cup in his hand, said his prayer and drank the hemlock without any hesitation,
09. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@ Hazrat Abdul Quader was born in Jilan in Iraq,
(b) His mother decided to send him to Baghdad with a view to educating him there,
(©) The boy left for Baghdad with a caravan of merchants, but on their way, a gang of robbers fell upon
them and looted their money.
(@) One of the robbers said that the small boy might have something with him.
(c) At the time of sending, his mother sewed forty gold coins in his shirt and advised him never to tell a lie.
(O) The boy said, "Mother has advised me never to tell a lie even in danger.”
(g) The leader felt surprised and said, "You might not have disclosed the fact.”
(h) Boy Abdul Quader spoke out, "No, no, I have forty gold coins sewed in my shirt."
(i) The robbers were ashamed of their deeds and gave up robbery.
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10. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@) Einstein walked all the way with a suitcase in one hand and a violin in the other.
(b) Accordingly, the queen sent some gorgeously dressed officials to the station to receive him.
(©) They could not think that Einstein would come in a simple.
(d) When. Einstein got down from the train at Brussels, he could not think that many gorgeously dressed
officials were there to receive him.
(©) "I did not think that, anybody would send a car for me," replied the greatest scientist.
(f) They went back and told the queen that Einstein had not come by the train.
(g) When he reached the destination, the queen told him that she had sent a car for him.
(h) Once, the queen of Belgium invited him to Brussels.
(The world famous scientist Einstein led a very simple life.
G)_ The officials also expected him in a rich aristocratic dress.
11. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@) It became a shelter for the sufferers.
(b) She was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979.
(©) Mother Teresa was a dedicated soul and her earlier name was Agnes.
(@) She came to India in 1929 for serving the people and started her life in Kolkata as a teacher in a convent
school.
(©) Then she became an Indian citizen
(© She established Nirmal Hriday at Kalighat in Kolkata.
(g) She was born in 1910 at a small village in Yugoslavia named Skopje and she was of Albanian descent.
(h) She decided to become a nun when she was eighteen
(® Her activities spread all over the world.
(@D_ She began to serve the downtrodden,
12. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(@) He also told them of men who ate human flesh and ofa strange race of people whose heads were under
their shoulders.
(b) Brabantio, a rich senator of Venice, had only one child, a daughter named Desdemona
(c) He had shown his bravery in many blood battles against the Turks and everyone praised him and the
senate trusted and honoured him.
(@) Her pity soon turned to love and she admitted to Othello that she loved him.
(©) She was so beautiful that many young men wished to marry her, but she refused them all because she
loved Othello.
(©) Brabantio often invited Othello to his house where he and his daughter listened in wonder to Othello as
he spoke about his adventures.
(g) Othello told them strange stories of battles he had fought in and places he had seen.
(h) Othello was a brave soldier who had risen to become a general
(3) Desdemona was fascinated by his stories and especially by the story of his life.
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13. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The king was angry because he wanted that people should like him instead of the wise man,
(b) Once, there was a foolish king who had a white horse,
(©) Before the end of the seven years, the foolish king died and the wise man kept the horse.
(d) The king also had a wise friend whom everyone liked.
(c) One day, he called the wise man and asked him to teach his white horse to speak,
(0 He told everything to his daughter.
(g) The wise man went to the king next day and begged seven years for the job.
(h) His daughter advised him to go to the king and begged seven years, becaus
needed long time.
(i) The king gave him the horse and also seven years,
(i) The wise man went home sadly because the king threatened him to kill if he failed.
caching a horse to speak
14, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) Sadi replied, "My dress deserves this food.”
(b) He set out for the emperor’ palace in ordinary dress.
(©) On the way, he took shelter in a courtier’s house, but the courtier and his men did not show much honour
and hospitality to him.
(@) The courtier understood his fault and begged the poet's pardon.
(© Once, he was invited to the emperor's palace.
() On his way back home, Saadi again took shelter in the same courticr's house putting on gorgeous dress.
(g) The courtier received him cordially and entertained him with rich and delicious foods.
(h) Sheikh Saadi, the great Persian poet, was simple in his ways of life
(@_ Now, Saadi began to put his foods in the pockets of his dress.
) Being surprised, they asked, "Why are you putting the foods in your dress?"
15. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) Jt was a uranium gun-type atomic bomb.
(b) It caused a great massacre in human history.
(©) The bombing of Hiroshima was executed after meticulous planning.
(d) But there was no bang or explosion.
(©) He flew hours before reaching the target.
(®) The charge was given to a Colonel in the United States Air Force named Paul W. Tibbets.
(@ Thus, the new nuclear age began, not with a bang but with a whimper.
(h) Then the bomb was set exploded 2000 ff. above the town.
(i Only a brownish-purple mist all around.
G) On the day of execution, Colonel Tibbets took off at a quarter to three in the moming.
16, Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) A tortoise also lived nearby.
(b) The next day, both the competitors reached the venue and got ready.
(©) Thanks to his habit of eating carrot, he could spot his opponent from such a distance.
(@) The hare was proud of his speed and teased the tortoise.
(©) Long ago, there lived a hare in a forest.
(f) Looking backwards, he saw the tortoise trailing far behind.
(g) He then thought it needless to expedite the victory that was a certainty to him.
(i) The hare outdistanced the tortoise soon after the race started,
(i) One day, the hare challenged the tortoise in a race and the later accepted it.
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Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) He wanted to be a sailor from his boyhood.
(b) Robinson Crusoe was born in England.
(©) He became a clever sailor in a few years.
(@) Once, a storm arose in one of the voyages.
(@) It drove the ship on to a sand bank,
(f) His father did not want that he should go to sea.
(g) He became a cabin boy on a sailing ship.
(h) His father wanted him to study law.
(i) He did not like the idea.
(He ran away from home one day.
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) The crow at last thought ofa plan to get rid of its enemy.
(b) It stole an expensive necklace of the princess from the royal palace and dropped it into the snake's hole
after scattering a few rubies here and there.
(0) A snake lived in a hole at the foot of a tree.
(d) The king became very angry at the loss and sent out men to look for the necklace.
(©) High up on its branches was the nest of a crow.
(O In this way, the snake ate up three of the chicks.
(g) The crow had four young chicks in its nest.
(h) In course of time, they noticed the scattered rubies near the hole.
(i) Whenever the crow would leave the nest to bring food for its chicks, the snake would climb up and eat
one.
@ They dug the hole, killed the snake and took the necklace.
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) Sometimes, it was difficult to satisfy him with answer,
(b) His father got angry for this kind of activity.
(©) Because he always asked "Why, why, why".
(@ The boy often undertook some risky adventures,
(e) He was Thomas Alva Edison.
(f) But there was only one person who did never feel annoyed with the boy.
(g) For example, once the boy set his father's barn on fire only to see how it could burn.
(h) Do you know who this boy was?
(And that person was his loving mother.
()_ A young boy of six or seven became the subject of talk in a village
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Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) One said, "I have lost my husband."
(b) A poor woman once came to Buddha.
(©) The sorrowful mother went from door to door seeking the mustard seeds, but at every door, she met
with sad replies.
(@) She returned with heavy heart to the great teacher and told him the result of her great search,
(e) He told her that there was only one medicine which could revive her son,
(Another said, "Our youngest child died last year."
(g) Then Buddha told her affectionately that she must not think much of her own grief since sorrow and
death are common to all.
(h) The holy man was touched by the great sorrow of the woman.
(She asked him whether he could give her any medicine to restore her dead child to life,
(j) He told her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a house where death had never entered.
21. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) Today, we remember them with profound respect.
(b) Again, many were killed in the war.
(c) Many died while fighting,
(d) Independence is the birthright of a man.
(©) Our war of independence took place in 1971.
(8) They did not run away showing their backs.
(g) They fought face to face, with the enemies,
(h) No nation can achieve it without struggle.
(i) People from all walks of life joined the war.
(i) Many went to the battlefield to save the country.
22. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) We only know that he entered St. John’s College of Cambridge.
(b) Robert Herrick, a famous English poet, was born in London, UK.
(c) He was reinstated to his post and worked there till his death.
(d) Nicholas Herrick suddenly died when Robert was a boy of only five.
(e) We do not know anything about his school years.
(O) His father Nicholas Herrick was a famous goldsmith of London.
(g) There he worked as an apprentice to his uncle in his trade of goldsmith for ten years.
(h) After the death of his father, his family shifted to a village in Middlesex.
(i) But he was removed from the post by the Puritan government.
(j) After taking his graduation, he joined as a Rector of Dean Prior in Devonshire,
23. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) In 1609, Galileo heard of telescope invented by Hans Lippershey, a maker of spectacles.
(b) He persuaded his father to let him study medicine and philosophy at the University of Pisa,
(©) He wanted to make his son a cloth-dealer.
(@) Soon, Galileo made more powerful telescopes with which he made many amazing discoveries about the
sun and the moon and stars.
(c) Galileo was born on 15 February 1564 in Pisa, Italy /
(f) He set to work on the day he heard of the Dutch telescope and made one of his own.
(g) He showed at a very early age an unusual talent for science.
(h) But Galileo had no taste for business.
(i) His father was a skillful musician and mathematician _
G) At the age of only seventeen, he had invented an important scientific law - the Law of the Pendulum.
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