Olympiad – Class X – English - Jumbled Sentences

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Question - 1

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) The gramophone was set aside due to the invention of two-in-one.
(b) Only rich people could buy a gramophone.
(c) Table radios also lost their sale in the market.
(d) The gramophone was considered to be the most recreative one.
(e) The two-in-one came into market

  • A b,c,a,d,e
  • B d,b,a,e,c
  • C a,b,c,d,e
  • D a,b,d,e,c

Question - 2

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) This bird is the Cuckoo.
(b) When one thinks of nests, one usually thinks of birds.
(c) It takes the easy way out.
(d) There is one bird who never tries to build a nest.
(e) It lays its eggs in other birds' nests and leaves them to hatch out her eggs

  • A b,d,c,e,a
  • B b,d,a,c,e
  • C a,b,d,c,e
  • D a,d,e,c,b

Question - 3

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) Even his wife was not friendly with him.
(b) He was poor and ugly - so ugly that some people could not help laughing at him.
(c) And his early rnanl-ood was passed at the time when the glory of Athens was at the highest.
(d) Yes, his name is one of the greatest in the whole history of thought and civilization.
(e) Socrates was born 470 years before the coming of Jesus

  • A a,b,e,c,d
  • B e,b,a,c,d
  • C e,d,c,b,a
  • D e,c,d,a,b

Question - 4

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) He felt that it was time for the Kingdom to pass into younger hands.
(b) He had ruled his kingdom wisely.
(c) There was once a king in England called Lear.
(d) So he decided to give up his title and spend the rest of his life in peace.
(e) But now he was old and feeble.

  • A c,b,e,a,d
  • B c,e,b,a,d 
  • C c,b,e,d,a
  • D a,c,d,e,b

Question - 5

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) The villagers were highly pleased.
(b) There was an announcement of a Puppet Show.
(c) The owner of the Puppet Show suddenly died.
(d) The members of the Puppet Show were to arrive on Sunday.
(e) The show was cancelled.

  • A d.b.c.e,a
  • B a.b.c.d,e
  • C b.a.d.c,e
  • D b.d.a.c,e

Question - 6

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) He was frightened to see it.
(b) From that time, the shepherd and the lion became good friends.
(c) He spoke to it gently and pulled out a thorn from its paw.
(d) Long ago, a shepherd was roaming in the hot desert land of Africa where he met a lion.
(e) But when he saw the lion in terrible pain, he walked towards it.

  • A d,e,c,a,b
  • B b.d.c.e,a
  • C d,a,e,c,b
  • D c,e,d,b,a

Question - 7

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) The ginger bread boy sat up and looked at the old man.
(b) Once upon a time a couple lived near river.
(c) One day the old woman made a ginger bread boy and put it in the oven.
(d) They were very sad because they had no children
(e) After thirty minutes she opened the door to see it. It was done.

  • A a,e,d,c,b
  • B b,e,c,d,a
  • C b,d,c,e,a
  • D c.b.d.e,a

Question - 8

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) Actually he was trying to infect the wrong type of mosquito.
(b) If mosquitoes were in fact the carriers of the disease, the parasites would be found alive within their bodies.
(c) He planned that mosquitoes should suck up blood full of the parasite of malaria.
(d) Major Ronald Ross set to work eagerly.
(e) Although he dissected hundreds of insects, Ross could not find what he wanted.

  • A d.b,c,a,e
  • B c,e,b,a,d
  • C d.c.b.e.a
  • D a,e,d,c,b

Question - 9

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) It is learnt that Miss Reddy was trained by two veteran masters, Shri A. B. See and Shri X. Y. Zed.
(b) The programme is being organised by Natya Ranga.
(c) They also trained her to participate in bicentenary celebrations held in Paris this year.
(d) She is a former student of the Government college of Music and Dance.
(e) Miss I. N. Reddy will present a Kathak dance at the Natya Sabha next Friday.

  • A e,d,a,c,b
  • B b.d.c.e,a
  • C e,b,a,c,d
  • D e,c,d,a,b

Question - 10

Select option showing a sensible and meaningful serial order of the jumbled sentence.
(a) But it cannot see in complete darkness as it is sometimes believed.
(b) Some animals are known for their keen eyesight.
(c) There must be some light or no living thing can see.
(d) It can see better than we can.
(e) The cat is one of them.

  • A b,e,d,a,c
  • B b.e.c.d,a
  • C c.b.e.d,a
  • D b,e,a,c,d
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