REARRANGING

HSC EXAM PREPARATION FOR ALL

HSC REARRANGE 01 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) “Please let me go to my country.”
ii) An English boy was making a small boat.
iii) “I shall cross the sea and go to my country by this boat.”
iv) He made all arrangements to send him to his country.
v) Suddenly he noticed a wonderful thing.
vi) Napoleon was charmed by the words of the small boy.
vii) “I haven’t seen my mother for a long time.”
viii) The boy said, “My country is on the other side of the sea.”
ix) One day Napoleon, the king of France, was walking along the seashore.
x) The boy was brought before him and he asked him what he would do with such a small boat.
Answer:
ix→ v→ ii→ x→ viii→ iii→ i→ vi→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 02 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) One prize is awarded in each field.
ii) The prize is instituted by a man who was the inventor of the science of destruction.
iii) Nobel Prize is the world’s most important prize.
iv) He is Alfred Bernard Nobel.
v) Though he was a citizen of Sweden, he was educated in Russia.
vi) Nobel Prizes are awarded to everyone for outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of scientific literature and for promoting world peace.
vii) The prize is given to the person with the most outstanding contribution.
viii) If there is more than one recipient of the prize in one field, the prize money is equally distributed amongst all the winners.
ix) Economics was added to the list in 1969 for the first time.
x) He was born in Stockholm on 21st October 1833 and he died on 10th December 1896.
Answer:
iii→ vii→ ii→ iv→ x→ v→ vi→ ix→ i→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 03 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Then he invited applications.
ii) The applicants were asked to meet the Sultan one by one.
iii) Long ago, there lived a Sultan in a country.
iv) Then he found the desired man.
v) He wanted to appoint an honest man as his tax collector.
vi) Several people applied for the job.
vii) All the applicants blushed and refused except one.
viii) So, he asked for the wise counsellor’s advice.
ix) When they all arrived, the Sultan asked them to dance.
x) They came through a passage where gold coins were kept.
Answer:
iii→ v→ viii→ i→ vi→ ii→ x→ ix→ vii→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 04| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He asked him where God is.
ii) He praised him highly.
iii) Once a lad went to a famous teacher.
iv) The teacher thought highly of the boy’s understanding.
v) The lad replied that he would answer if he would tell where He is not.
vi) The boy devoted himself to earning knowledge.
vii) He begged to instruct him in the arts and science.
viii) He agreed to teach the lad.
ix) He expressed his desire to acquire knowledge.
x) The teacher wished to find out the ability of the boy.
Answer:
iii→ ix→ vii→ x→ i→ v→ iv→ ii→ viii→ vi

 

HSC REARRANGE 05| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) As a result, he studied under the great thinker Plato.
ii) He also wrote books on biology, Literature, Economics and Comparative Politics.
iii) Plato taught Aristotle according to his way.
iv) Aristotle was born in Greece.
v) His father wanted him to be a physician but the never cherished to be so.
vi) Later on, Aristotle took the pen to write on topics suitable for human civilization.
vii) He is called the father of Biology because of his creativity.
viii) ‘Politics’ is one of his famous books which exposes the fullest development of his wisdom.
ix) He was the son of a royal physician.
x) He wanted to be a free thinker.
Answer:
iv→ ix→ v→ x→ i→ iii→ vi→ viii→ ii→ vii

 

HSC REARRANGE 06 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) As Bagerhat is near the Bay of Bengal, the water is usually saline.
ii) Khan Jahan Ali was a philanthropic man.
iii) He, therefore, excavated many tanks to private fresh water to the people.
iv) He came to Bagerhat to preach Islam and to promote the plight of common people.
v) He found Bagerhat to be beset with many problems.
vi) His memory will never be sunk into oblivion.
vii) Thus he solved the problem of drinking water.
viii) The scarcity of drinking water is one of them.
ix) The people of Bagerhat remember him with respect.
x) Ghana Dighi is one of them.
Answer:
ii→ iv→ v→ viii→ i→ iii→ x→ vii→ ix→ vi

 

HSC REARRANGE 07 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He was one of the most renowned linguists in Bangladesh.
ii) He died in 1969 and we remember him with respect.
iii) He was second to none in Bengali Language and Literature.
iv) Dr Mohammad Shahidullah was born in 24 Porgonas, West Bengal in 1885.
v) He joined Jessore Zilla School in 1910.
vi) He passed the Entrance and FA exams in 1904 and 1906.
vii) He received some awards and contributed much to Bengali Literature.
viii) He passed Hons. And M.A. in 1910 and 1912.
ix) He joined Dhak University as a Lecturer of Bengali in 1921.
x) He got his PhD in 1928.
Answer:
iv→ i→ iii→ vi→ viii→ v→ ix→ x→ vii→ ii

 

HSC REARRANGE 08 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The Nobel Prize has been being given since 1901.
ii) In 1850 Alfred Nobel joined his father’s company.
iii) He earned a lot of money from his Dynamic business.
vi) He was an engineer and chemist.
v) Dr Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
vi) This award was named after Alfred Nobel and it was called ‘Nobel Prize’.
vii) His father Emanuel Nobel was an architect and researcher.
viii) He had an ammunition business at Leningrad.
ix) He undertook a plan to give an award for encouraging creative work for setting up peace in the world.
x) After some years Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite.
Answer;
v→ iv→ vii→ viii→ ii→ x→ iii→ ix→ vi→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 09| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) One said, “I have lost my husband.”
ii) A poor woman once came to Buddha.
iii) The sorrowful mother went from door to door seeing the mustard seeds but at every door, she met with sad replies.
iv) She returned with a heavy heart to the great teacher and told him the result of her great search.
v) He told her that there was only one medicine which could revive her son.
vi) Another said, “Our youngest child died last year.”
vii) Then Buddha told her affectionately that she must not think much of her grief since sorrow and death are common to all.
viii) The holy man was touched by the great sorrow of the woman.
ix) She asked him whether he could give her any medicine to restore her dead child to life.
x) He told her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a house where death had never entered.
Answer:
ii→ ix→ viii→ v→ x→ iii→ i→ vi→ iv→ vii

 

HSC REARRANGE 10 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) During his stay he received an unpaid letter from his friend, which contained nothing but some words.
ii) The poet had to pay double postage, so he became very annoyed.
iii) So he procured a heavy stone and packed it up in a fine box.
iv) His friend thought that the contents of the parcel were valuable. So he paid the heavy charge for carrying.
v) Thus the poet taught his friend a good lesson.
vi) To his utter surprise, he found nothing but an ordinary stone.
vii) An English poet was staying in Italy for the benefit of his health.
viii) Then he sent it to his friend with the words on it” Carriage to be paid on delivery.”
ix) With great hope in mind he opened the box.
x) He wanted to teach his friend a good lesson.
Answer:
vii→ i→ ii→ x→ iii→ viii→ iv→ ix→ vi→ v

 

HSC REARRANGE 11 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Once the Queen of Belgium invited him to Brussels.
ii) When he reached the destination, the queen said to him, “I sent a car for you, Dr Einstein.”
iii) The officials also expected to see somebody who would appear to be rich and aristocratic before them.
iv) Einstein the great scientist, was very simple in his ways of life.
v) “I did not think that anybody would send a car for me, replied the great scientist with a smile.
vi) Einstein, however, walked the whole way with a suitcase in one hand and a violin in the other.
vii) So, they went back to the queen and informed her that he had not come by the train.
viii) “But I can assure you, I have greatly enjoyed the walk.”
ix) They could never imagine that this shabby man would be Einstein himself.
x) When he got off the train in Brussels, he could not think that there were many gorgeously dressed officials to receive him at the station.
Answer:
iv→ i→ x→ iii→ ix→ vii→ vi→ ii→ v→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 12| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) “I know that after thunder comes rain.”
ii) He had a wife who used to lose her temper on the slightest excuse.
iii) Socrates believed that an angry man was more of a beast than a human being.
iv) The passers-by in the street were much amused at the incident.
v) Socrates joined them in their laughter and quietly remarked, “I was expecting this.”
vi) One day the woman became more furious than ever and began to insult the great scholar of Greece.
vii) She tried her utmost to irritate Socrates.
viii) Socrates went outside and sat on the doorstep of his residence looking out on the path-street.
ix) The wife found that her husband was not paying the least heed to her word.
x) She went up to him with a bucket full of water and poured a lot of water on him.
Answer:
iii→ ii→ vi→ vii→ viii→ ix→ x→ iv→ v→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 13| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) In the evening the lion entered the cave.
ii) The man was very bad and used to inflict heavy torture on him.
iii) To escape torture, one day he fled from his master’s house and took shelter in a cave.
iv) He took the lion’s paw in his hand and removed a big thorn from it.
v) A lion lived in a cave.
vi) The lion seemed to be wounded as he was groaning.
vii) The lion was relieved of his pain.
viii) Unfortunately, he was caught by a slave merchant who sold him to a rich man in another country.
ix) He came near the lion.
x) One there lived a young man named Androcles.
Answer:
x→ viii→ ii→ iii→ v→ i→ vi→ ix→ iv→ vii

 

HSC REARRANGE 14 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) As each pebble went down, the water in the jar rose a little.
ii) It flew from one place to another in search of water and at last found a jar in a garden.
iii) Then it decided to fly away in despair.
iv) The crow tried to turn the jar over and over again but it had no effect.
v) Then it dropped the pebbles into the jar.
vi) A crow was very thirsty and wanted to drink water.
vii) There was some water in the jar but it was too low down and out of its reach.
viii) As it was leaving the jar, it noticed a heap of pebbles nearby.
ix) It hit upon a plan then and took some pebbles.
x) When the water came to the mouth of the jar, the crow drank it.
Answer;
vi→ ii→ vii→ iv→ iii→ viii→ ix→ v→ i→ x

 

HSC REARRANGE 15 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Once a good astrologer visited the capital of the king.
ii) “I shall wait to receive your majesty where you have been sending me.”
iii) At this the king got furious and condemned him to death.
iv) The king called the astrologer to the place.
v) There was a king who was fond of knowing his future from astrologers.
vi) Before the astrologer was removed for execution, the king asked him, “How long would you live?”
vii) At this the king turned pale.
viii) Drive this wretch away and let him not come again,” shouted the king.
ix) But he told something very unpleasant.
x) With ready wit he said, “The stars declare that I’ll die only a week before your health!”
Answer:
v→ i→ iv→ ix→ iii→ vi→ x→ ii→ vii→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 16 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The first friend climbed up a tree.
ii) Suddenly a bear came there.
iii) Once upon a time two friends were passing by a forest.
iv) The latter could not climb up a tree.
v) They were talking about their love for each other.
vi) He did not find any way.
vii) The bear smelt his ears, nose and face.
viii) He lay down on the ground feigned dead.
ix) Then the bear went away.
x) He thought him to be dead.
Answer:
iii→ v→ ii→ i→ iv→ vi→ viii→ vii→ x→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 17| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Solomon was puzzled for a time.
ii) Everyone has heard the name of Solomon, the king of the Jews, who was famous all over the world for his wealth and magnificence and especially for his wisdom.
iii) Attracted by such reports, she came to test the king.
iv) The Queen of Sheba had heard much about the grandeur of Solomon’s court and the worldwide reputation of his learning and wisdom.
v) The Queen of Sheba was surprised and went away admiring the king’s great wisdom.
vi) He asked the windows to be opened.
vii) She placed them before the king to take the natural one.
viii) The bees came in and settled on the natural flowers and thus solved the riddle of the queen.
ix) She brought with her two garlands of flowers: one natural and the other artificial.
x) While pondering, he noticed some bees humming for honey in a withered rose.
Answer:
ii→ iv→ iii→ ix→ vii→ i→ x→ vi→ viii→ v

 

HSC REARRANGE 18| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Sa’di replied, “My dress deserves this food.”
ii) He set out for the emperor’s places in ordinary dress.
iii) 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.
iv) The courtier understood his fault and begged the poet’s pardon.
v) Once he was invited to the emperor’s palace.
vi) On his way back home, Sa’di again took shelter in the same courtier house putting on a gorgeous dress.
vii) The courtier received him cordially and entertained him with rich and delicious food.
viii) Sheikh Sa’di, a great Persian poet was simple in his ways of life.
ix) Now, Sa’di began to put his food in the pockets of his dress.
x) Being surprised, they asked, “Why are you putting the food in your dress?”
Answer:
viii→ v→ ii→ iii→ vi→ vii→ ix→ x→ i→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 19 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The lion laughed and said, “O, you! Are you suitable to help me?”
ii) The mouse said, “Let me go now, sooner or later, I may help you.”
iii) At that time, a mouse fell upon its body while playing.
iv) While going out of the net, the lion said, “It is a great lesson for me. The strong or mighty one is also dependent on the weak one.”
v) After some days, the lion fell into a trap and he was crying loudly for help.
vi) Listening to this, the mouse came swiftly and found the lion in a trap.
vii) The lion caught the mouse and it began to tremble with fear.
viii) The mouse remembered his promise and cut the net into pieces and let the lion come out.
ix) “Many thanks to you. You have saved my life,” said the lion.
x) Once a lion was sleeping in a cave.
Answer:
x→ iii→ vi→ ii→ i→ v→ vi→ viii→ ix→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 20| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He was Thomas Alva Edison.
ii) He was very inquisitive about things around him and sometimes it was difficult to satisfy him with an answer.
iii) The boy often undertook some risky adventures.
iv) His father got angry for this kind of activity but at the same time, he was proud of the young boy.
v) There was only one person who did never feel annoyed with the joy.
vi) People soon got tired when they talked to him.
vii) And that person was his loving mother.
viii) A young boy of six or seven became the subject of talk in a village because he always asked, “Why, why, why.”
ix) Do you know who this boy was?
x) For Example, once the boy set his father’s barn on fire only to see how it could burn.
Answer:
viii→ ii→ vi→ iii→ x→ iv→ v→ vii→ ix→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 21| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Porus came forward with his people and fought courageously, but unfortunately, he was defeated in the battle.
ii) Alexander, the conqueror of the world, once crossed the Khyber Pass and reached India.
iii) Alexander was pleasant with Porus for his prompt and bold reply and allowed him to rule his country as before.
iv) “Like a king,” was the reply of Porus.
v) Then he came to the plain of the Punjab.
vi) There ruled a king called Porus.
vii) He wanted to conquer the land of Porus.
viii) Then he asked taken prisoner by the soldiers of Alexander.
ix) Alexander asked him how he would like to be treated by him.
x) He was brought before Alexander.
Answer:
ii→ v→ vi→ vii→ i→ viii→ x→ ix→ iv→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 22| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Hojja immediately replied, “Why did you make me climb all the way downstairs to ask for money? Couldn’t you see that I was working?”
ii) Suddenly, he saw someone calling from below.
iii) When he came near, the man said that he was a beggar and wanted some money.
iv) He saw a man was standing at the foot of the stairs and was asking him to get down and listen to him.
v) Being curious, he climbed down from the roof and went down the stairs.
vi) Hojja became furious and decided to teach him a lesson.
vii) So, he told the man to climb up the stairs with him.
viii) One day, Nasiruddin Hojja was mending a hole in the roof of his two-storeyed house.
ix) The beggar was very surprised and asked who Hojja had made him climb up the stairs to say he had no money.
x) When they both got to the rooftop, where he was previously working, Hojja turned towards the man and said, “Sorry, I have no money, so you have to leave.”
Answer:
viii→ ii→ iv→ v→ iii→ vi→ vii→ x→ ix→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 23| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He lost his father in his childhood.
ii) You must have heard the name of Kazi Nazrul Islam, our national poet.
iii) One day, this Dukhu Mia became a great poet.
iv) He was born on the 20th of May 1899 in Burdwan.
v) He spent his early life in great hardship.
vi) So, he drew the attention of the public.
vii) He was called Dukhu Mia for his sorrow.
viii) He did not like the hard and fast rules of the school and used to flee away from school.
ix) As a boy Nazrul was restless and absentminded.
x) He could sing, dance and compose verses even in his boyhood.
Answer:
ii→ iv→ i→ v→ vii→ ix→ viii→ x→ vi→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 24 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He died on August 29, 1976, and was buried in the compound of Dhaka University.
ii) He wrote a lot of poems, songs, gazals, short stories, poems, novels etc.
iii) He lost his father at the age of eight and the age of eleven he showed his poetic genius.
iv) At the age of nineteen, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier to fight in the First World War.
v) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen.
vi) It was tragic that he had been suffering from a cruel disease since 1942 and remained paralyzed for the rest of his life.
vii) In 1924, he got married to Promila in Kolkata.
viii) Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata in 1972.
ix) Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 in the district of Burdwan in West Bengal.
x) Then he was declared our national poet by the then Government of Bangladesh.
Answer:
ix→ iii→ iv→ v→ ii→ vi→ viii→ x→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 25| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) At that time, he drew the attention of a Muslim sub-inspector of police.
ii) At an early age, Nazrul lost his father.
iii) He did not obey the hard and fast rules of the school.
iv) He took Nazrul to his village home and got him admitted into a big school.
v) At the age of ten, he was admitted to a local primary school.
vi) Kazi Nazrul Islam is our national poet.
vii) When he was 12, he fled away from home and took a job in a baker’s shop.
viii) But he was not attentive to his studies.
ix) He was born in 1899 AD, at Churulia in the district of Burdwan.
x) For this he had to struggle hard against poverty.
Answer:
vi→ ix→ ii→ x→ v→ viii→ vii→ i→ iv→ iii→

 

HSC REARRANGE 26| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) In 1958, Ayub Khan declared martial Law.
ii) He is also known as Bangabandhu.
iii) He is called the father of the nation of Bangladesh.
iv) He was born in Tungipara, Gopalgonj in 1920.
v) He led the Language Movement of the then East Pakistan in 1952 bravely.
vi) You must have heard the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
vii) All of us are indebted to him for his deeds in 1971.
viii) So, we should keep in mind his name over the centuries.
ix) He did that to enslave us for the next ten years.
x) In 1966, Bangabandhu launched the six-point movement subsequently.
Answer:
vi→ iii→ ii→ iv→ v→ i→ ix→ x→ vii→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 27| Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman addressed a mammoth public gathering in the Race Course on March 7, 1971, and invoked the people for the struggle for freedom.
ii) This great leader was assassinated as a result of an international conspiracy.
iii) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the greatest leader of Bangladesh as well as one of the greatest leaders in the world.
iv) In 1948 he plunged himself into Language Movement and he was expelled as a law student by the university authorities.
v) He joined politics at the age of eighteen having been impressed by Hussain Shahid Suhrawardy.
vi) He became a minister in the cabinet of Fazrul Haq in 1954.
vii) In 1966, he accepted the historic six points for the self-determination of the country and as a result, he was thrown behind bars by the Ayub Khan government.
viii) With the imposition of Martial Law in 1958, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested and kept detained without trial.
ix) After the mass uprising in 1969, he was released and achieved a landslide victory in the parliament election but the military ruler Yahya Khan conspired and kept postponing the parliament.
x) He was arrested and the Pakistani rulers started a bloody massacre.
Answer:
iii→ v→ iv→ vi→ viii→ vii→ ix→ i→ x→ ii

 

HSC REARRANGE 28 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He enrolled himself at the Islamic College, a well-respected college affiliated with the University of Kolkata.
ii) Mujib became politically active when he joined the All India Muslim Federation in 1940.
iii) Two years later he took admitted to class four at Madaripur Islamia High School.
iv) He returned to school after four years owing to the severity of the surgery and slow recovery.
v) He joined the Bengal Muslim League in 1943.
vi) In 1929, Mujib entered class three at Gopalganj Public School.
vii) In 1946, he became the general secretary of the Islamia College Students Union.
viii) However, Mujib was withdrawn from school in 1934 to undergo eye surgery.
ix) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in Tungipara, a village in Gopalganj District.
x) He was the third child in a family of four daughters and two sons.
Answer:
ix→ x→ vi→ iii→ viii→ iv→ ii→ i→ v→ vii

 

HSC REARRANGE 29 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) They were aliens in their own country and were subjected to all sorts of indignities.
ii) The blacks were treated cruelly.
iii) The great leader vowed to put an end to the inhuman practice.
iv) They were denied all basic human rights.
v) Even dogs received much better treatment than blacks.
vi) Eventually the great leader realized the goal of liberating his people.
vii) He was thrown behind the prison bar.
viii) Nelson Mandela was the greatest leader of South Africa.
ix) But the oppressive rulers could not break the spirit.
x) In fact, he was one of the greatest leaders of the world who struggled against apartheid throughout
his life.
Answer:
viii→ x→ ii→ i→ iv→ v→ iii→ vii→ ix→ vi

 

HSC REARRANGE 30 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) But first he wanted to know how much they loved him.
ii) Lear was shocked and said, “Nothing will come of nothing.”
iii) At first Lear asked his eldest daughter, “How much do you love me?”
iv) Goneril declared, ‘Sir, I love you more than I can say.”
v) Lear was pleased and gave her a third of his kingdom.
vi) Being satisfied Lear called for the map of his kingdom and drew his finger around one-third of it.
vii) When asked, his second daughter Regan said, “My love for you shall never change.”
viii) He made up his mind to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom.
ix) When asked about his youngest and most loved daughter Cordelia said, “Nothing.”
x) Long ago, there was a mighty old king of England named Lear who had three daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.
Answer:
x→ viii→ i→ iii→ iv→ vi→ vii→ v→ ix→ ii

 

HSC REARRANGE 31 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Then the leaders of the robbers came to Sa’adi.
ii) The merchants had their goods and a lot of money.
iii) He had a bundle of books and some money with him.
iv) They travelled for twelve days without any trouble.
v) He ordered Sa’adi to give all he had to him.
vi) On the thirteen days, a gang of robbers attacked them.
vii) Sheikh Sa’adi handed him the bundle of books and also the little money he had without any fear.
viii) Once Sheikh Sa’adi was going to Baghdad with a group of rich merchants.
ix) Sa’adi then said, “I hope that you will make good use of these books.”
x) The robbers took away all the goods and money from the merchants.
Answer:
viii→ iii→ ii→ iv→ vi→ x→ i→ v→ vii→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 32 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) There she became a teacher at a school in Kolkata.
ii) Soon her activities for the service of mankind spread all over the world.
iii) She was on her heels for her selfless services to mankind even in her old age.
iv) As a recognition of her service, she was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.
v) She was one of those people who dedicated their lives to the service of mankind.
vi) When she was eighteen, she decided to be a nun and came to Kolkata.
vii) She swore to dedicate her life to the cause of helpless and poor people.
viii) She was born in Yugoslavia in 1919.
ix) She was also given the ‘Bharat Ratna Award’ in the following year.
x) You have heard the name of Mother Teresa.
Answer:
x→ v→ viii→ vi→ i→ vii→ ii→ iv→ ix→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 33 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He draws lots of pictures of the famine of 2nd World War and his name and fame spread all over the world.
ii) For this, at the age of 15, he went to Kolkata to see Arts School.
iii) On 28 May 1976 he died in Kolkata.
iv) His father Tamij Uddin was a police officer.
v) He had a great thirst for drawing pictures.
vi) He did not like the hard and fast rules of the school and so he drew pictures secretly.
vii) In 1948 he founded the Dhaka Art Institution in Dhaka.
viii) Joynul Abedin was born in a village in Kishoreganj in 1914.
ix) In 1933 at the age of 19 he was admitted to Kolkata Art College.
x) In 1938 he got first class and in the same year, he was awarded the gold medal in All India Art Exhibitions.
Answer:
viii→ iv→ v→ vi→ ii→ ix→ x→ i→ vii→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 34 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He said, “I have a good plan for your consideration. Let us tie a bell around the cat’s neck. Then we will hear him coming and be able to hide in time.”
ii) There lived several mice in an old house.
iii) The master of the house was very annoyed and bought a cat to kill the mice.
iv) The mice were in great difficulty and could not move freely as before.
v) Several proposals were made but none of the proposals was good.
vi) At last a young mouse rose to speak.
vii) They were doing a lot of mischief there.
viii) All the mice thanked the young mouse for his plan.
ix) But an old mouse stood up and said, “No doubt the idea is good. But who will tie the bell?”
x) They held a meeting to discuss the matter and find a way to be free from this danger.
Answer:
ii→ vii→ iii→ iv→ x→ v→ vi→ i→ viii→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 35 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Fazrul Huq quoted the pieces from memory word for word.
ii) His father Kazi Wazed Ali was a renowned leader in the Barisal Bar.
iii) He was greatly charmed at the wonderful memory of his son and thought his son would one day be a great man in the subcontinent.
iv) The great leader of our country whom we love and admire is Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazrul Huq.
v) From his boyhood, he was a very meritorious boy.
vi) He saw Fazlul Huq reading his lesson and tearing off the pages of his book one after another.
vii) He at once entered the room and said “O, my boy, don’t play with your book.”
viii) One day when the boy Fazrul Huq was reading in his study room, his father was passing by.
ix) “I am not plying. I have already gone through these pages. So, I do not need them at all,” said he.
x) His father wanted to test him and asked him to quote some lines from such and such pages of this book.
Answer:
iv→ ii→ v→ viii→ vi→ vii→ ix→ i→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 36 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He was going there to speak at a meeting.
ii) The last words of the speech are: Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
iii) He was not writing on a paper, but on the back of an envelope.
iv) These words tell us what the best possible way of ruling a country is.
v) On the envelope, it was what he was going to say at the meeting.
vi) On the train, he was busy writing something.
vii) President Abraham Lincoln was going to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by train.
viii) In fact, the speech on the envelope is now famous as the “Gettysburg Address.”
ix) It was the 10th of November 1863.
x) In is one of the finest and the senate trusted and honoured him.
Answer:
ix→ vii→ i→ vi→ iii→ v→ ii→ iv→ viii→ x

 

HSC REARRANGE 37 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Everyone praised him and the senate trusted and honoured him.
ii) Othello was a brave soldier who had risen to become a general.
iii) He had shown his bravery in many bloody battles against the Turks.
iv) He told them of deserts, caves and mountains high enough to touch the sky.
v) Desdemona was fascinated by the stories and especially by the story of his life.
vi) Othello told them strange stories of battles he had fought in and places he had seen.
vii) Hearing it, she had to weep and she never became tired of listening to it.
viii) Brabantio, a rich senator of Venice, had only one child, a daughter named Desdemona.
ix) He also told them of men who ate human flesh and of a strange race of people whose heads were under their shoulders.
x) Brabantio often invited Othello to his house where he and his daughter listened in wonder to Othello as he spoke about his adventures.
Answer:
ii→ iii→ i→ viii→ x→ vi→ iv→ ix→ v→ vii

 

HSC REARRANGE 38 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Socrates took the cup in his hand, said his prayer and drank the hemlock without any hesitation.
ii) He argued with them about the immorality of the soul and asked them to let him die in peace.
iii) At sunset the Governor of the prison came.
iv) His friends and disciples could not bear the sight and burst into tears.
v) Then there came a man with a cup in hand that contained hemlock, a deadly poison.
vi) A few moments passed, and Socrates lay down and covered his face.
vii) A moment later, he uncovered his face and looking at Crito, said, “Don’t forget the debt, Crito.”
viii) With eyes full of tears, they bade Socrates a last farewell.
ix) Socrates met his friends and disciples for the last time.
x) At last, the hour of departure had arrived.
Answer:
x→ ix→ ii→ iii→ v→ i→ vi→ vii→ iv→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 39 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The ant said, “Since you sang all summer, it seems you have to dance all winter.”
ii) An ant was talking out of gains of wheat from his granary which he stored during the summer.
iii) The ant asked what he was doing during the summer.
iv) A grasshopper, half-dead with hunger, came imping by and asked the ant for some food.
v) The grasshopper replied that he was not idle.
vi) It was a frosty winter day.
vii) He was singing all day long during the summer.
viii) The grasshopper went away being sad.
ix) Hearing this, the ant smiled grimly.
x) Saying this the prudent ant locked his granary door.
Answer:
vi→ ii→ iv→ iii→ v→ vii→ ix→ i→ x→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 40 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) when he was the President of America a civil war broke out.
ii) Lincoln became great by dint of his efforts and perseverance.
iii) As a man he was simple and kind.
iv) Lincoln was in favour of the slaves.
v) It began in 1861 and continued for more than four years.
vi) Abraham Lincoln was the greatest President of the United States of America.
vii) The Civil occurred over the question of slavery.
viii) He was born in 1809.
ix) There were many Negro Slaves in America in those days.
x) He rose from humble origin.
Answer:
vi→ viii→ x→ iii→ ii→ i→ ix→ vii→ v→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 41 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He wanted to be a sailor from his boyhood.
ii) Robinson Crusoe was born in England.
iii) He became a clever sailor in a few years.
iv) Once a storm arose in one of the voyages.
v) It drove the ship onto a standing bank.
vi) His father did not want that he should go to sea.
vii) He became a cabin boy on a sailing ship.
viii) His father wanted him to study law.
ix) He did not like the idea.
x) He ran away from home one day.
Answer:
ii→ i→ vi→ viii→ ix→ x→ vii→ iii→ iv→ v

 

HSC REARRANGE 42 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) When his master sat down to eat, he quickly noticed the missing leg and asked what had happened to the other leg.
ii) He drew the attention of his master and showed him that some ducks had indeed one leg.
iii) It put down its other leg as well and ran off.
iv) The roast looked so delicious that the cook couldn’t resist the temptation and ate up one of the drumsticks.
v) A cook once roasted a duck for his master.
vi) The cook told him that the duck had one leg only.
vii) The master said that there was no such thing as a one-legged duck.
viii) The cook said that if he had known this trick, he would have clapped his hands too before cooking to bring it out of the other leg.
ix) The master clapped his hands loudly which startled the duck.
x) Right at that moment the cook looked out of the window and saw some ducks one of which was standing on one leg and had the other leg folded inside.
Answer:
v→ iv→ i→ vi→ vii→ x→ ii→ ix→ iii→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 43 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Being wise their gifts were, no doubt, wise and these proved their love and respect for the baby in a manger.
ii) The Magi were the three wise men of the East who brought gifts to the infant Jesus.
iii) They introduced the custom of giving Christmas presents.
iv) Similar is the case with the Christmas presents of Jim and Della.
v) Jim on the other hand, sold this gold watch to buy a set of beautiful combs for his wife.
vi) Della sold her hair to buy a platinum fob chain for her husband’s gold watch.
vii) They were led by a star to the stable of Bethlehem where Jesus was born.
viii) They are the Magi of the day.
ix) Out of their true love, they sacrificed their dearest procession to buy Christmas presents.
x) The worldly-wise men may call them fools but Jim and Della are the wisest of all who give and receive gifts.
Answer:
ii→ iii→ vii→ iv→ ix→ vi→ v→ x→ i→ viii

 

HSC REARRANGE 44 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) It established his reputation as the greatest scientist.
ii) He is considered the greatest Physicist after Einstein.
iii) In it he explains Cosmology to the general public.
iv) He wrote a book, “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bangs to the Present Times.”
v) He is famous for his investigations into the origins of the universe.
vi) He got his PhD in Cosmology from Cambridge University by the time he was 26 years old.
vii) He is very skilled in Mathematics from an early age and also very skilled in theoretical Physics.
viii) Stephen Hawking was born into an educated family.
ix) He had a brilliant result.
x) Thus he received the prestigious Albert Einstein Award.
Answer:
viii→ ii→ ix→ vii→ x→ vi→ v→ iv→ iii→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 45 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The old woman felt pity for him and quickly gave Taimul a full dish of food.
ii) Taimul was so hungry that he did not wait.
iii) When the news reached the Prince, he came with a large army.
iv) Taimul’s soldiers were all killed, but Taimul escape with great difficulty.
v) One day he became very hungry and asked an old woman to give him something to eat.
vi) The food was very hot.
vii) He hurriedly dug his fingers right into the middle of the dish.
viii) Taimul, one of the greatest conquerors of the world, once attacked a province of a powerful prince.
ix) As a result, he burnt his fingers.
x) He disgusted himself as a poor traveller and supported himself by begging.
Answer:
viii→ iii→ iv→ x→ v→ i→ vi→ ii→ vii→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 46 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) So he made up his mind to his mind to go to the peacocks and live with them.
ii) One day, a crow found some beautiful feathers of a peacock in a jungle.
iii) Crows are ugly to look at.
iv) So they are unhappy and want to be beautiful.
v) He took the feathers one by one and stuck them in among his feathers.
vi) He looked at himself and became glad and proud because he was no longer ugly like other crows.
v) He took the feathers one by one and stuck them in among his feathers.
vi) He looked at himself and became glad and proud because he was no longer ugly like other crows.
vii) Seeing him, the peacocks understood that he was a crow in the guise of a peacock.
viii) They attracted him, pulled out the feathers and drove him away.
ix) The crow realized his fault and promised he would never be false or over-ambitions.
x) When he returned to the crows, they also drove him away.
Answer:
iii→ iv→ ii→ v→ vi→ i→ vii→ viii→ x→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 47 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) And he took shelter in a remote cave.
ii) Then he saw a spider trying hard to reach the ceiling of the cave.
iii) Robert Bruce was a famous king.
iv) Once he was lying in the cave.
v) The king fought bravely but lost the battle.
vi) The king was always in a gloomy state for his unhappy condition.
vii) Enemies invaded his kingdom.
viii) He had to flee from his kingdom to save his life.
ix) Being inspired by the spider, Robert Bruce attacked the enemies and lastly regained his kingdom.
x) The spider failed again and again to succeed but it did not give hope and at last succeed.
Answer:
iii→ vii→ v→ viii→ i→ vi→ iv→ ii→ x→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 48 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The hare was always proud of his speed and teased the tortoise.
ii) The next day the hare and the tortoise reached the venue.
iii) One day challenged the tortoise to defeat him in a race.
iv) The hare can very swiftly.
v) Long ago, there lived a hare and a tortoise in a forest.
vi) They got ready.
vii) They went to a fox and wanted him to act as a judge.
viii) The tortoise accepted the challenge.
ix) As the fox waved the flag, the two started running.
x) But the tortoise ran very slowly.
Answer:
v→ i→ iii→ viii→ vii→ ii→ vi→ ix→ iv→ x

 

HSC REARRANGE 49 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) Some frogs made their home in the pond.
ii) One day some boys were going by the side of the pond.
iii) Then the boys began to throw stones into the pond for fun.
iv) There was a little pond in a village.
v) Many of them were hurt very seriously and killed.
vi) The stones hit the frogs one by one.
vii) An old man saw it and forbade the boys to kill them.
viii) But the frogs did not know how to save their lives.
ix) The frogs played songs there all the time.
x) They found the playful frogs in the pond.
Answer:
iv→ i→ ix→ ii→ x→ iii→ vi→ v→ viii→ vii

HSC REARRANGE 50 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The banker said, “I will put an end to your toiling.”
ii) One day banker asked the cobbler, “How much a year do you earn?”
iii) He took the money, hurried back home and buried it in the earth, but alas! He buried his happiness with it too.
iv) There lived a happy cobbler who passed his days working and singing from morning till night.
v) The cobbler replied, “How much a year, Sir?”
vi) Take this money and keep them carefully and use them in time of need.
vii) He had a rich neighbour who was a banker.
viii) I have never counted that way.
ix) The cobbler had never seen so much money at a time in their life before.
x) As you can see, I live from hand to mouth but somehow I manage to have three meals every day and I am happy.
Answer:
iv→ vii→ ii→ v→ viii→ x→ i→ vi→ ix→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 51 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The grocer sent his son with the fruit seller.
ii) Then one day, the fruit seller said to the grocer, “I am going to the town to do some shopping.
iii) After a few days, the fruit seller asked the grocer to return his balance and weight.
iv) The next day the fruit seller came back alone from the town.
v) One day a grocer borrowed a balance and weights from a fruit seller.
vi) Please send your son with me to carry my things.
vii) The grocer said, “The mice ate away your balance and weight. So, I can’t return them.”
viii) “Where is my son?” asked the grocer.
ix) The lame excuse of the dishonest grocer made the fruit seller very angry.
x) “A crow carried your son away” replied the fruit seller.
Answer:
v→ iii→ vii→ ix→ ii→ vi→ i→ iv→ viii→ x

 

HSC REARRANGE 52 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) She saw a box marked half a crown.
ii) She was not permitted to exceed it.
iii) But her governess said, “No, you see, the princess has not the money and so, of course, she cannot buy the box.”
iv) She considered that the box would be the most appreciated gift for him.
v) Queen Victoria when a little girl was taught economic habits by her governess.
vi) Once at a market in Wales she spent all her money buying a number of presents for relatives and friends.
vii) The princess had a fixed allowance for pocket money.
viii) The people in the shop wanted to enclose the box with other articles.
ix) But alas! She had no money.
x) As she was leaving, she remembered another cousin for whom she did not buy any presents.
Answer:
v→ vii→ ii→ vi→ x→ iv→ ix→ viii→ iii

 

HSC REARRANGE 53 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He showed it to his wife.
ii) However, he picked it up and carried it home.
iii) The lands yielded him some crops.
iv) One day he was walking through the fields.
v) He thought that it might have been dropped by a passerby.
vi) With that he supported his family with difficulty.
vii) He had a few acres of land.
viii) So, he always thought about how he could add to his income.
ix) There lived a farmer in a village.
x) While walking, he came across a purse of gold.
viii) So, he always thought about how he could add to his income.

Answer:
ix→ vii→ iii→ vi→ viii→ iv→ x→ → ii→ I

 

HSC REARRANGE 54 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) In 1971 he set out from Venice to China.
ii) They had travelled by land and sea.
iii) For transport they used ships, camels, horses and donkeys.
iv) He was accompanied by his father and uncle.
v) They also travelled over maintains and across deserts.
vi) He was one of the greatest adventurous men.
vii) It took the Polos over three years to reach China.
viii) Actually at that time journey was very difficult because of no speedy vehicles.
ix) He was then 15 years old.
x) Macro Polo was born in 1256 in Venice.
Answer:
x→ vi→ i→ ix→ iv→ ii→ v→ iii→ viii→ vii

HSC REARRANGE 55 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The Mayor called a meeting of the councillors.
ii) The people of the town came to the Town Hall.
iii) At that moment there was a knock at the door.
iv) They said the Mayor to do something about rats.
v) The Mayor and the councillors talked about the problem.
vi) A long time ago the town of Hamelin in Germany was faced with a great problem.
vii) The Mayor said, “Come in.”
viii) But they could not find a way out.
ix) The stranger entered the hall.
x) It became full of rats.
Answer:
vi→ x→ ii→ iv→ i→ v→ viii→ iii→ vii→ ix

HSC REARRANGE 56 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He entered the kingdom of the prince and captured a large village.
ii) Taimur disguised himself as a poor traveller.
iii) He came with a large army.
iv) Taimur one of the greatest conquerors of the world.
v) The prince heard the news.
vi) Thus he saved his life.
vii) Taimur’s soldiers were killed.
viii) His soldiers surrounded the village and a terrible battle took place.
ix) Once he attacked the province of a powerful prince.
x) The village was situated far away from the capital.
Answer:
iv→ ix→→i→ x→ v→ iii→ viii→ ii→ vi

 

HSC REARRANGE 57 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) The anger took down his request and went away.
ii) His name was Abu Ben Adhem.
iii) Abu requested him to put his name on the list because he loved mankind and his fellow brothers.
iv) He again appeared the next night and showed Abu that his name was at the top of the list.
v) The anger was writing the names of persons who loved God.
vi) Once upon a time there was an honest and pious man.
vii) He asked the angel if his name was there.
viii) He was once sleeping peacefully.
ix) In reply the angel said that his name was not there.
x) Suddenly he woke up and saw an angel.
Answer:
vi→ ii→ viii→ x→ v→ vii→ ix→ iii→ i→ iv

 

HSC REARRANGE 58 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) One of them started pecking the dog’s tail.
ii) Both the crows went near the dog.
iii) The dog dropped the bone and looked at the crow.
iv) Once a dog was eating a bony piece of meat under a tree.
v) The dog not only felt disturbed but also become angry.
vi) It flew away and after some time returned with another crow.
vii) A crow saw him and wished to eat that.
viii) In the meantime, the other crow flew away with the bone.
ix) This made him sad and helpless.
x) The dog ran after the crow but in vain.
Answer:
iv→ vii→ vi→ ii→ i→ v→ iii→ viii→ x→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 59 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) He had not much education.
ii) He ascended the throne of Delhi at the age of 13.
iii) His full name was Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar.
iv) He was skilled in warfare.
v) Akbar was born in 1542 at Amarkoat in Sindh.
vi) He won the 2nd Panipath Battle in 1556.
vii) His father was Humayan.
viii) It was the greatest victory in his life.
ix) He ruled for over 50 years in India.
x) He was the grandson of Babur.
Answer:
v→ iii→ vii→ x→ ii→ i→ iv→ vi→ viii→ ix

 

HSC REARRANGE 60 | Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
i) As a student, Luther King was very brilliant.
ii) He donated all the money for the development of the Negro Nation.
iii) After marriage, Luther King worked as a clergyman in the Baptist Church of Alabama.
iv) He was born on 15th January 1929 in Atlanta city.
v) He was shot dead in 1968 when he was only 39 years old.
vi) He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for leading the racial problem in America in a non-violent and peaceful way.
vii) During this time, he married an extraordinarily learned woman called Coretta Scott.
viii) Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader in the world history of freedom and the rise of the Negro Nation.
ix) He was imprisoned for his movement against colour differences.
x) He obtained his doctorate from Boston University.
Answer:
viii→ iv→ i→ x→ vii→ iii→ ix→ vi→ ii→ v