Prabal Bhowmik Titu
Prabal Bhowmik Titu
Exercise- 1
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) In the evening, a lion entered the cave.
b) One day, he fled from his master’s house and took shelter in a cave.
c) Once upon a time, there lived a young man named Androcles.
d) He came near Androcles and lifted his paw.
e) He was caught by a slave merchant who sold him to a rich man in another country.
f) The lion seemed wounded as he was groaning.
g) His master was very bad and inflicted heavy torture on him.
h) He took the lion’s paw in his hand and removed a big thorn from it. The lion was relieved of his pain.
Answer: c+e+g+b+a+f+d+h
Exercise- 2
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) Penicillin is the lifesaving medicine.
b) He passed his boyhood with his parents.
c) It was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming.
d) He was the seventh of the eight brothers and sisters.
e) He was never absent from school up to the age of twelve.
f) He was sent to London at the age of fourteen for higher study.
g) Fleming was born in a poor family in Scotland.
h) Fleming was a very regular and attentive student.
Answer: a+c+g+d+b+h+e+f
Exercise- 3
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) They got money, made a shelter in a makeshift house and started making ‘Nakshi Kantha’ with new and old clothes and thread of different colors.
b) Yet Nur Banu did not become frustrated and inspired her husband to stand against all odds.
c) Her husband was a farmer and they had everything but they became helpless.
d) As Nur Banu was good at art in her early age, she could make wonderful design in her kanthas.
e) A few years back Nur Banu lost everything for the river erosion.
f) Her husband sold them in the market and became solvent.
g) She together with her husband worked hard and made a lot of kanthas.
h) She had an ornament made of gold and she gave it to her husband to sell it.
Answer: e+c+b+h+a+d+g+f
Exercise- 4
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) ‘I am not playing. I have already gone through these pages.’
b) His father was passing by.
c) From his boyhood, he was a very meritorious boy.
d) He at once entered the room and said, “O my boy, don’t play with your book.”
e) His father Kazi Wazed Ali was a renowned pleader in the Barishal bar.
f) One day the boy Fazlul Huq was reading in his study room.
g) He saw Fazlul Huq was reading his lessons and tearing off the pages of his book one after another.
h) The great leader of the country whom we love and admire is Sher-E-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq.
Answer: h+e+c+f+b+g+d+a
Exercise- 5
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) The dog was cured.
b) He found a mad dog and injected some weak germs of its diseases into blood.
c) One day a boy named Joseph Meister was brought to Pasteur.
d) He had been bitten by a mad dog.
e) Pasteur was a French scientist.
f) Pasteur gave him some injections and the boy did not get dog’s disease.
g) He discovered that many diseases are caused by germs and he also found cures for several of them.
h) At first, he only treated animals because he did not want to cause the death of any human being.
Answer: e+g+h+b+a+c+d+f
Exercise- 6
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942.
b) In 1993 Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
c) For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful nonviolent defiance against the South African Government and its racist policies.
d) Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95.
e) In 1993, South African President F.W. de Klerk was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
f) In 2009, Mandela’s birthday was declared “Mandela Day” to promote global peace.
g) Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in South Africa.
h) In 1994, Mandela was elected as South Africa’s first black President.
Answer: g+a+c+b+e+h+f+d
Exercise- 7
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) On the way, people were showing due respect to the statue of the goddess.
b) So, feeling proud, the donkey started to bray in joy.
c) Once a statue of goddess was being taken to the town placing on the back of a donkey.
d) Then the driver of the donkey became very angry.
e) Saying this, he started beating the donkey with stick.
f) Seeing this, the donkey thought that people were showing him honor.
g) He said, “You wretched, do you think people show you this respect? Such a bad day for man will never come.”
h) Moreover, it refused to move even a step.
Answer: c+a+f+b+h+d+g+e
Exercise- 8
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) But his heart was not in medicine and he felt that he was born to be a poet.
b) This great poet met a premature death on February 23, 1821.
c) Finally, he abandoned surgery for literature.
d) John Keats was born on October 31, 1795.
e) He lost his father in 1804 and his mother in 1810.
f) His finest poems like ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, etc. were published in 1820.
g) In 1811, Keats became an apprentice to a surgeon at Edmonton.
h) He was the eldest son of his parents.
Answer: d+h+e+g+a+c+f+b
Exercise- 9
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
a) The king asked him why he was making such a small boat.
b) Napoleon, the king of France, was a great hero.
c) One day he was walking along the sea-shore.
d) He won many battles and conquered many countries of Europe.
e) The boy said, “I Shall cross the sea and go to my home.”
f) Suddenly he noticed a wonderful thing.
g) The boy was brought before him.
h) An English boy was making a small boat.
Answer: b+d+c+f+h+g+a+e
Exercise- 10
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) Shamim got a lease of land in his village.
(b) Shamim’s lot has changed radically.
(c) Poverty forced him to look for work.
(d) He has also been raising hybrid cows for milk as well as to produce manure.
(e) Shamim was an unemployed youth of an impoverished family.
(f) Then he joined the training program of youth development and received training in vegetable cultivation.
(g) He is now very happy to be a self-sufficient man.
(h) He applied his new and improved knowledge for cultivating vegetables.
Answer: e+c+f+a+h+d+b+g
Exercise- 11
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) Suddenly he stopped one of the guests.
(b) The marriage ceremony was over and the guests were all going to the feast.
(c) He spoke so strangely that the guest stood still and listened to the story.
(d) He saw people walking past him.
(e) The old man told him about his last journey.
(f) The old sailor sat on a stone outside the church.
(g) He had a strange mad look in his eyes.
(h) “There was a ship,” the old sailor began.
Answer: b+f+g+d+a+e+h+c
Exercise- 12
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) The dog dropped the bone and barked at the crow.
(b) One of them started pecking at dog’s tail.
(c) Both the crows went near the dog.
(d) Once a dog was eating a bony piece of meat sitting under a tree.
(e) The dog not only felt disturbed but also became angry.
(f) It flew away and after sometime returned with another crow.
(g) A crow saw him and wished to eat that.
(h) In the meantime the other crow flew away with the bone.
Answer: d+g+f+c+b+e+a+h
Exercise- 13
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) The merchant sold him to a rich man in another country.
(b) To escape torture, he one day fled from his master’s house.
(c) Once there lived a young man named Androcles.
(d) Unfortunately he was caught by a slave merchant.
(e) He took shelter in a cave.
(f) He used to inflict heavy torture on him.
(g) It was unbearable for him.
(h) The man was very rude and cruel.
Answer: c+d+a+h+f+g+b+e
Exercise- 14
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) The old woman felt pity for him and quickly gave Taimur a full dish of food.
(b) Then he disguised himself as a poor traveler and supported himself by begging.
(c) As a result, he burnt his fingers.
(d) He came to a house and asked an old woman to give him something to eat.
(e) Once young Taimur attacked a province but unfortunately his soldiers were all killed.
(f) The food was very hot.
(g) One day he became very hungry and could not get anything to eat.
(h) He hurriedly dug his fingers right at the middle of the dish.
Answer: e+b+g+d+a+h+f+c
Exercise- 15
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) But his heart was not in medicine and he felt that he was born to be a poet.
(b) This great poet met a premature death on February 23, 1821.
(c) Finally, he abandoned surgery for literature.
(d) John Keats was born on October 31, 1795.
(e) He lost his father in 1804 and his mother in 1810.
(f) His finest poems like ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ etc. were published in 1820.
(g) In 1811, Keats became an apprentice to a surgeon at Edmonton.
(h) He was the eldest son of his parents.
Answer: d+h+e+g+a+c+f+b