Test 12 (A-B)

The following text is mixed up. Arrange all parts of it in the correct order.

On the following day Van Baerle...

1. "Ah!" said Cornelious. "I heard the clock strike ten a long time ago. I have not got much time."

2. "The prisoner shall be taken from prison into the yard and there his head shall be cut off."

3. They questioned him; then they said that their orders would be sent to the prison later. Van Baerle was taken back to the prison to wait.

4. The officer went out.

5. After about half an hour an officer came to the prison. Rosa opened the door of Van Barle's room; she was crying. The officer read out the orders of the judge:

6. "Oh, no," said Van Baerle. "Only I should never have guessed that this would be the cause of my death. On what day is my head to be cut off?"

7. "At twelve o'clock."

8. Cornelious Van Baerle listened to the words. He seemed surprised rather than sad.

9. "At what time?" asked Van Baerle.

10. On the following day Van Baerle was called before the judges.

11. "Have you anything to say?" asked the officer.

12. "Today," answered the officer, surprised at Van Baerle's calmness. Rosa was weeping.

Test 13(A-B)

The following text is mixed up. Arrange all parts of it in the correct order.

There was a bored and tyrannical Sultan...

1. When everyone had left the court, they gathered round Nasruddin.

2. Nasruddin spoke up.

3. "What is it?" asked the Sultan.

4. "I can teach monkey to read and to write," said Nasruddin.

5. "Easy," said Nasruddin. "The Sultan is eighty years old, and I'm eighty-five.

6. "Oh mighty Sultan, I can do something to entertain you."

7. "There is only one thing," said Nasruddin. "It will take ten years."

8. There was a bored and tyrannical Sultan. One day he shouted at his courtiers.

9. "All right," said the Sultan, "I'll give you the ten years."

10. "Can you really teach a monkey to read and to write?" asked one of them.

11. "So why did you promise to do it?" asked another

12. "Do it then," said the Sultan. "But, if you fail, I'll execute you."

13. "Of course, I can't," replied Nasruddin.

14. "Unless someone does something to entertain me, I'll cut all your heads offl"

15. "We'll both have other things on our minds in ten years' timel"

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