Rearrange Exercise for HSC
1. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) In
1914 when the First World War broke out, he wanted to join the army.
b) At the age of eleven he showed his poetic
genius.
c) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up
the sword for the pen and began to write poems.
d) In 1972, he was brought from Kolkata to
Bangladesh and declared our national poet.
e) His poem inspired our freedom fighters in the
liberation war of Bangladesh.
f) At last, at 19, he joined the army as an
ordinary soldier.
g) He wrote a lot of poems, songs, short stories,
gajals, novels, etc. and traveled all branches of Bengali literature.
h) Our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born
in 1306 B. S. (1899 A. D.) at Churulia in the district of Burdwan.
i) He died on the 29 August, 1976.
j) His famous poem Bidrohi stirred the whole nation.
2. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) They
were aliens in their own country and were subjected to all sorts of
indignities.
b) The
blacks were treated cruelly.
c) The
great leader vowed to put an end to the inhuman practice.
d) They
were denied all basic human rights.
e) Even
dogs received much better treatment than the blacks.
f) 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 Africa.
i) But the oppressive rulers could not break the spirit.
j) In fact, he was one of the greatest leaders of the world who struggled against apartheid throughout his whole life.
3. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) In
1880, Rabindranath was called back to India.
b) He
was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his Gitanjali.
c) He
returned home without any qualifications of distinction.
d) He
wrote Gitanjali, a collection of Bengali songs of superior quality.
e) Rabindranath
Tagore, the 14th child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi Tagore, was born in 1861
in a respectable family at Jorasako in Kolkata.
f) At
the age of seventeen, in 1878 he reached London to attend school.
g) He
went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight.
h) The
experience had a lasting effect on his later life.
i) However,
he never gave up his habit of writing poetry.
j) He
gathered much experience from his stay in London.
4. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) Florence
Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy.
b) Despite
facing opposition from her family, she was determined to follow her passion for
nursing.
c) This
work earned her the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp."
d) She
revolutionized the field of nursing with her dedication and innovative
practices.
e) Her
work during the Crimean War brought her worldwide recognition.
f) After
the war, she established the first scientifically based nursing school, the
Nightingale Training School for Nurses, in London.
g) Nightingale
believed in the importance of sanitation and hygiene in hospitals.
h) She
became an inspiration for nurses around the world and helped establish nursing
as a respected profession.
i) She
spent hours tending to wounded soldiers, often walking through the wards at
night with a lamp.
j) Even
today, her legacy lives on in the principles of modern nursing.
5. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a)
He saw Fazlul Haq reading his lessons and tearing off the pages of his books one
after another.
b)‘So,
I do not need them at all’, said he.
c) Sher-E-Bangla
A K Fazlul Haq was a great leader of our country.
d) One
day he was reading in his study.
e) He
asked him to quote some lines from the pages of the book.
f) ‘I
am not playing; I have gone through these pages.’
g) From
his boyhood, he was a meritorious boy.
h) His
father wanted to test him.
i) His
father was passing by.
j)
He at once entered the room and said ‘O my boy, don’t play your book.’
6. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) Shakespeare was married
at eighteen to a woman of twenty-one.
b) There he became an
actor and a playwright.
c) But he never
attended any college.
d) By this time, he
was thirty.
e) He received a
sound and basic education.
f) During the next
ten years he composed his greatest plays.
g) William
Shakespeare was born in 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon in England.
h) He had three
children before he was twenty-one.
i) A few years later,
he went to London.
j) He had become
prosperous before he reached the age of thirty-four.
7. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) He
asked him where God was.
b) He
praised him highly.
c) Once
a lad went to a famous teacher.
d) The
teacher thought highly of the boy’s understanding.
e) The
lad replied that he would answer if he would tell where He was not.
f) The
boy devoted himself to earning knowledge.
g) He
begged to instruct him in the arts and sciences.
h)
He agreed to teach the lad.
i) He
had expressed his desire to acquire knowledge.
j) The
teacher wished to find out the ability of the boy.
8. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
a) He
was one of the most renowned linguists of Bangladesh.
b) He
died in 1969 and we remember him with respect.
c) 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 Jashore Zilla School in 1910.
f) He
passed the Entrance and FA exams 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.
i) He
joined Dhaka University as a Lecturer of Bengali in 1921.
j) He
got his Ph.D in 1928.
9. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a
proper sequence.
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.
c) The
Nobel Prize is the world’s most important prize.
d) He
is Alfred Bernard Nobel.
e) Though
he is a citizen of Sweden, he was educated in Russia.
f) Nobel
Prizes are awarded every year for outstanding achievements in the field of
science, and literature and for promoting world peace.
g) The
prize is given to a person with the 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 to the list in 1969 for the first time.
j)
He was born in Stockholm on 21st October 1833 and he died on 10th December
1896.
10. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The
king was very fond of knowing his future from astrologers.
b) The
king called him to the palace.
c) At
this the king got furious and condemned him to death.
d) A
good astrologer happened to visit his capital.
e) Once
there was a king.
f) With
ready wit, he said, “The stars declare that I will die just before the week of your
death.”
g) But
another thought crossed his mind before the astrologer was removed for
execution.
h) The
king then said, “How long will you live?”
i) The
astrologer said something unpleasant.
j) He then thought for a while for some ways of escape.
11. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The cook was very stubborn.
b) The cook could not check his temptation
and ate up one of the drumsticks.
c) The master was very cautious and was not
to be fooled so easily.
d) The cook was more than clever.
e) He replied that it was a one-legged
duck.
f) Once a cook roasted a duck for his and
it looked very delicious.
g) When the master sat to have his meal, he
noticed that one of the legs was missing.
h) He said that there was no one legged
duck.
i) He asserted that this duck had only one
leg.
j) He asked what had happened to the other
leg.
12. The following
sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence.
a) Saadi replied, ‘My dress deserves these foods.’
b) He set out for the emperor’s palace in his ordinary
dress.
c) On the way, he took shelter in a courtier’s house, but he
was not given befitting honor and hospitality.
d) The courtier understood his fault and begged the poet’s
pardon.
e) Once he was invited to the emperor’s palace.
f) On his way back home, Saadi again took shelter in the
same courtier’s house putting on gorgeous dress.
g) The courtier received him cordially and entertained him
with delicious foods.
h) Sheikh Saadi, a great Persian poet, was simple in his
ways of life.
i) Now Saadi began to put the foods into his pockets.
j) Being surprised, he asked, ‘Why are you putting the foods
into your pockets?’
13. The following
sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence.
a) As each pebble fell down, the level of water began to
rise little by little.
b) It flew from one place to another in search of water and
at last found a jar in a garden.
c) Then it decided to fly away in despair.
d) The crow tried to turn the jar over and over again, but
it had no effect.
e) Then it dropped the pebbles into the jar.
f) A crow was very thirsty and wanted to drink
water.
g) There was some water in the jar, but it was too low down
for it to reach.
h) As it was leaving the jar, it noticed a heap of pebbles
nearby.
i) It hit upon a plan and took some pebbles.
j) When the water came to the mouth of the jar, the crow
drank it.
14. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) He sat on the doorstep of house looking out on the public
street.
b) One day the woman became more furious than ever.
c) She always tried to irritate Socrates.
d) She began to insult Socrates.
e) She thought that he was not paying the least attention to
her.
f) She went up to him with a bucket of water and poured much
water on him.
g) So he went out of the room.
h) Socrates could not tolerate it.
i) Socrates wife used to lose her temper on the slightest
excuse.
j) This made his wife more furious.
15. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) They never thought that this shabbily dressed man would
be Einstein himself.
b) He could not think that these people were there to
receive him.
c) Einstein however walked the whole way
from the station with a suitcase in one hand and a violin on the other hand.
d) But I assure you, I greatly enjoyed the walk.
e) Once Einstein went to Brussels at the invitation of the
Queen of Belgium.
f) When he got down from the train at Brussels he saw many
gorgeously dressed people present at the station.
g) The officials also expected to see somebody, who would
appear to be rich and aristocratic.
h) With a smile on his face, he replied, I did not expect
that your majesty.
i) When he reached the palace, the queen said to him, I sent
a car for you Dr. Einstein.
j) So they went back to the Queen and informed her that the
great scientist has not come by train.
16. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) So, he made up his mind to
give up his throne and divide his kingdom among his three daughters.
b) Goneril was the eldest,
Regan was second and Cordelia was the youngest and the king’s most favourite.
c) These events happened long
ago when King Lear was ruling Britain.
d) But before giving up his
throne, Lear wanted to know how much his daughters loved him.
e) He needed peace and rest.
f) King Lear had three
daughters.
g) He was over eighty years of
age.
h) Now King Lear was a very
old man.
i) Their names were Goneril,
Regan and Cordelia.
j) He was tired of ruling his
kingdom.
17. The following
sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence.
a) Solomon was puzzled for a
time.
b) Everyone has heard the name
of Solomon, the kind of the Jews, who was famous all over the world for his
wealth and magnificence and especially for his wisdom.
c) Attracted by such reports,
she came to test the king.
d) The Queen of Sheba had
heard much about the grandeur of Solomon’s court and the worldwide reputation
of his learning and wisdom.
e) The Queen of Sheba was
surprised and went away admiring the king’s great wisdom.
f) He asked the windows to be opened.
g) She placed them before the
king to take the natural one.
h) She brought with her two
garlands of flowers: one natural and the other artificial.
i) The bees came in and
settled on the natural flowers and thus solved the riddle of the Queen.
j) While pondering, he noticed
some bees humming for honey in a withered rose.
18. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The angle took down his
request and went away.
b) His name was Abu Ben Adhem.
c) Abu then requested him to
write his name in the list as he loved mankind.
d) Once upon a time there
lived an honest man.
e) The angel again appeared
next night and showed him the list with his name at the top.
f) The angel was writing the
names of those persons who loved God.
g) He asked the angel if his
name was there.
h) Once he was sleeping
peacefully.
i) (i)In reply the angel said
that his name was not there.
j) Suddenly he woke up and saw
an angel.
19. The following
sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence.
a) Bruce saw the spider climbing
to the ceiling after some unsuccessful attempts.
b) He took shelter in a remote
cave.
c) Then he saw a spider trying
hard to reach the ceiling of the cave.
d) But it did not give up
hope.
e) He had to flee from his
kingdom to save his life.
f) The king fought bravely but
lost the battle.
g) Once he was lying in the
cave.
h) The spider failed again and
again to succeed.
i) Robert Bruce was a famous
king of Scotland.
j) Enemies invaded his
kingdom.
20. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) His mother decided to send him to Baghdad with a view to
educating him there.
b) One of the robbers said the small boy might have
something with him.
c) The boy said, “Mother has advised me never to tell a lie
even in danger.”
d) Hazrat Abdul Quader was a famous religious figure in
Islam.
e) The leader felt surprised and said, “You might not have
disclosed the fact.”
f) At the time of sending, his mother sewed forty gold coins
in his shirt and advised him never to tell a lie.
g) Boy Abdul Quader spoke out, “No, no, I have forty gold
coins sewed in my shirt.”
h) The boy left for Baghdad with a caravan of merchants, but
on their way a gang of robbers fell upon them.
i) The gang leader said that perhaps the boy had nothing
with him.
j) He was born in Jilan in Iraq.
21. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) It was at the other end of the locality.
b) She was sleeping on her bed.
c) But he did not find any water in the house.
d) One night Bayazid was sitting beside his sick mother.
e) He returned home with the jar of water.
f) At about mid-night she raised her head and asked for
water.
g) He took a jar and went there all alone.
h) Then he went to his mother but she was asleep.
i) Bayazid stood up and went to fetch water.
j) Then he decided to go to a nearby spring for water.
22. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) Then she
became a teacher of a school in Kolkata.
b) Soon her
activities for the services
of mankind spread all over the
world.
c) She was on
her heels for her selfless service of mankind even at her old age.
d) As a
recognition to her service, she was awarded Nobel Prize for peace in 1979.
e) She was one
of those people who dedicated their lives to the service of mankind.
f) When she was
eighteen, she
decided to be a nun and came to Kolkata.
g) She swore to
dedicate her life for the cause of the helpless and poor people.
h) She was born
in Yugoslavia in
1919.
i) She was also
given ‘Bharat Ratna Award’ in the following year.
j)
You have heard the name of Mother Teresa.
23. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) He is our pride.
b) Dr. Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong.
c) In 1997, Professor Yunus organized the world’s first
Micro Credit Summit in Washington DC.
d) He is also the Managing Director of the Grameen Bank.
e) He received his primary education in Chittagong.
f) He is the founder of Grammen Bank.
g) He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
h) He was the Head of Economics Department of Chittagong
University.
i) He received his Ph.D from Vanderbilt University in the
USA.
j) He is the third of 14 children of his parents.
24. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The grocer sent his son
with the fruit seller but he came back alone from the town.
b) "Just the same way as
mice can eat away the balance and weights," said the fruit seller.
c) 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.
e) After a few days, the fruit
seller asked the grocer to return his balance and weights.
f) "Where is my
son?" asked the grocer.
g) The grocer said, "The
mice ate away your balance and weights. So, I can't return you."
h) One day a grocer borrowed a
balance and weights from a fruit seller.
i) The lame excuse of the
dishonest grocer made the fruit seller r very angry. But he checked his temper.
j) "A crow carried your
son away", replied the fruit seller.
25. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The last word of the of the speech are: ”Government of
the people, for the people for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
b) Abraham Lincoln was the 19th president of the United
States of America.
c) On the 10th of November 1863, a railway train was
carrying him to place called Gettysburg.
d) It is one of the finest and the shortest speeches in the
English language.
e) He was going there to speak at a meeting.
f) On the envelop, 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.
i) In the train, he was busy writing something.
j) In fact, the speech on the envelope is now famous as
“Gettysburg Address.”
26. The following
sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence.
a) The Mayor called a meeting of the councilors.
b) The people of the town came to the Town Hall.
c) At that moment there was a knock at the door.
d) They said to the Mayor to do something about rats.
e) The Mayor and the councilors talked about the problem.
f) A long time ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was faced
with a great problem.
g) The Mayor said, “Come in.”
h) But they could not find a way out.
i) The stranger entered the hall.
j) It became full of rats.
27. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) As a result, he studied under a great thinker Plato.
b) He also wrote books on Biography, Literature, Economics,
and Comparative politics.
c) Plato taught Aristotle according to his own way.
d) Aristotle was born in Greece.
e) 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) ‘Politics’ is one of his famous books which expose the
fullest development of his wisdom.
i) He was the son of a royal physician.
j) He wanted to be a free thinker.
28. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) The banker said, ‘I will
put an end to your toiling.’
b) One day the banker asked
the cobbler. ‘How much a year do you earn?’
c) He took the money, hurried
back home and buried it in the earth, but alas! He buried his happiness with it
too.
d) There lived a happy cobbler
who passed his days working and singing from morning till night.
e) The cobbler replied, ‘How
much a year, Sir?’
f) Take this money and keep
them carefully and use them in time of need.
g) He had a rich neighbour who
was a banker.
h) I have never counted that
way.
i) The cobbler had never seen
so much money at a time in life before.
j) As you can see, I live from
hand to mouth but somehow, I manage to have three meals every day and I am
happy.
29. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) He did not die a natural death.
b) He was born in 459 B.C. in Athens.
c) He would stop passers-by at different places in the
street and asked them simple questions.
d) Socrates was the wisest philosopher and teacher of his
time.
e) His mission was to spread knowledge among the people.
f) He wanted to educate people.
g) He was killed by the rulers of Athens.
h) He lived in Athens in Greece.
i) Athens was the home of sculpture.
j) Socrates would often go out in the streets of Athens.
30. The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange
them in a proper sequence.
a) (a)He had not much education.
b) He ascended the throne of Delhi at the age of 13.
c) His full name was Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar.
d) He was skilled in warfare.
e) Akbar was born in 1542 at Amorkot in Sindh.
f) He won the Second Panipath battle in 1556.
g) His father was Humayun.
h) It was the greatest victory in his life.
i) He ruled 50 years in India.
j) He was the grandson of Babur.
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- Cloze test without clues exercise with answers
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- Cloze test with clues exercise with answers
Answer Scripts
1.
Answer:
h➵b➵a➵f➵c➵g➵j➵e➵d➵i
2.
Answer:
h➵j➵b➵a➵d➵e➵c➵g➵i➵f
3.
Answer:
e➵g➵f➵j➵h➵c➵a➵i➵d➵b
4.
Answer:
a➵b➵d➵e➵i➵c➵g➵f➵h➵j
5.
Answer:
c➵g➵d➵i➵a➵j➵f➵b➵h➵e
6.
Answer:
g➵e➵c➵a➵h➵i➵b➵d➵f➵i
7.
Answer:
c➵i➵g➵j➵a➵e➵d➵b➵h➵f
8.
Answer:
d➵a➵c➵f➵h➵e➵i➵j➵g➵b
9. Answer:
c➵b➵d➵j➵e➵f➵i➵g➵a➵h
10. Answer:
e➵a➵d➵b➵i➵c➵g➵h➵j➵f
11. Answer:
f➵b➵g➵j➵d➵e➵c➵h➵a➵i
12. Answer:
h➵e➵b➵c➵f➵g➵i➵j➵a➵d
13. Answer:
f➵b➵g➵d➵c➵h➵e➵i➵a➵j
14. Answer:
i➵c➵b➵d➵h➵g➵a➵e➵j➵f
15. Answer:
e➵f➵b➵g➵a➵j➵c➵i➵h➵d
16. Answer:
c➵f➵i➵b➵h➵g➵j➵e➵a➵d
17. Answer:
b➵d➵c➵h➵g➵a➵j➵f➵i➵e
18. Answer:
d➵b➵h➵j➵f➵g➵i➵c➵a➵e
19. Answer:
i➵j➵f➵e➵b➵g➵c➵h➵d➵a
20. Answer:
d➵j➵a➵f➵h➵b➵i➵g➵e➵c
21. Answer:
d➵b➵f➵i➵c➵j➵a➵g➵e➵h
22. Answer:
j➵e➵h➵f➵a➵g➵b➵d➵i➵c
23. Answer:
b➵j➵e➵h➵i➵f➵d➵c➵g➵a
24. Answer:
h➵e➵g➵i➵c➵a➵f➵j➵d➵b
25. Answer:
b➵c➵e➵i➵h➵f➵j➵d➵a➵g
26. Answer:
f➵j➵b➵d➵a➵e➵h➵c➵g➵i
27. Answer:
d➵i➵e➵j➵a➵c➵f➵h➵b➵g
28. Answer:
d➵g➵b➵e➵h➵j➵a➵f➵i➵c
29. Answer:
d➵b➵h➵i➵j➵c➵e➵f➵a➵g
30. Answer:
e➵g➵j➵b➵c➵d➵f➵h➵i➵a
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