The study of the effect of exercise on the immune system involves extensive research and analysis.
A. It is found in studies that exercise helps improve the functions of the immune cells.
B. For example, if a patient is suffering from a sore throat, the yoga pose “Sarvangasana” can reduce the frequency of the infection.
C. This increases the immunity cells in those areas.
D. In yoga, regional immunity can be improved by improving the blood circulation of an area.
Immunity can also be improved by de-stressing the body and mind.
A man who was living alone always had two plates on the dinner table.
P: One evening when he sat down to dine, the dog rushed into the room
Q: He used to give the dog a piece of meat from his plate
R: One plate was for him, and the other was for his dog
S: and dropped a piece of cheese into his plate and another piece of cheese into his master’s plate.
Thus, the dog showed gratitude to his master.
1. The train had just left Nagpur.
A. The horizon lay interspersed with silken clouds – plain white balls of unblemished cotton.
B. It would be some time before it reached Hyderabad, my destination.
C. It was as if I was in the midst of a celestial play.
D. The deep blue sky spread over the craggy Deccan expanse.
6. The sun was at its playful best.
S1: There is no reason for the terror which the sight of a snake causes in most people.
S6: Being aggressive by nature, they can attack human beings for no reason at all, taking a fisherman or swimmer by surprise in the water, where the man is somewhat helpless.
P: Of the poisonous snakes, only those found in the sea are always dangerous.
Q: They are only too anxious to avoid human beings.
R: Many more people are killed, much more frequently by motor-cycles and cigarettes than by snakes.
S: The majority of snakes are harmless.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence
S6: Being aggressive by nature, they can attack human beings for no reason at all, taking a fisherman or swimmer by surprise in the water, where the man is somewhat helpless.
P: Of the poisonous snakes, only those found in the sea are always dangerous.
Q: They are only too anxious to avoid human beings.
R: Many more people are killed, much more frequently by motor-cycles and cigarettes than by snakes.
S: The majority of snakes are harmless.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence
A. totally personal agenda will never bring about this level of fulfillment because that has to result from integration – and not be a substitute for it.
B. One’s consciousness then becomes centred in the identity of the soul.
C. Realising ourselves and our potential entails becoming a pure reflection and manifestation of the inner self.
D. Since the soul lives by different laws and values, there is a fundamental conflict in human nature that must be resolved if integration and fulfilment is to be complete.
1. Some banks are in discussion to introduce voice biometrics as an option for authenticating phone banking.
A. For banks, the main attraction of voice authentication is that this does not require deployment of infrastructure – unlike in the case of fingerprint or iris recognition – as mobile phones are widely available.
B. A voiceprint is a hashed string of numbers and characters that represent how specific an individual’s voice rates on a host of characteristics being measured.
C. Banks are in talks with Nuance, a US company specializing in voice recognition and whose technology powers are Apple and Blackberry phones.
D. While phones use speech recognition which is still evolving, voice recognition is a different technology altogether and more reliable than using PIN.
6. As such, a compromised voice print has no value to a hacker.
S1:Your letter was big relief.
P :How did you exams go?
Q :After your result, you must come here for a week.
R :You hadn’t written for over a month.
S :I am sure you will come out with flying colours.
S6:But don’t forget to bring chocolate for Geetha.
The Proper sequence should be:
S1: There is difference between Gandhiji’s concept of secularism and that of Nehru’s.
P : Nehru’s idea of secularism was equal indifference to all religions and bothering about none of them.
Q : According to Gandhiji, all religions are equally true and each scripture is worthy of respect.
R : Such secularism which means the rejection of all religions is contrary to our culture and tradition.
S : In Gandhiji’s view, secularism stands for equal respect for all religions.
S6: Instead of doing any good, such secularism can do harm instead of good.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too “in fact he returns to the point often” that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D .Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners
The Proper sequence should be:
S1: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in room.
P : For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q : On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R : While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the ‘feel’ of this committe.
S : As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
S6: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.
A) So, the next day when the birds had flown off to look for food, the bird catcher spread his net under the tree.
(B) One day a bird catcher wandering through the forest came upon a banyan tree where a flock. of pigeons rested.
(C) But as they were very clever, they flapped their wings together, lifted the net off the ground and flew away with it.
(D) He knew that if he managed to catch even half the pigeons, he would be able to sell them in the market for a very good price.
(E) To their shock, they all realized that they had landed right into the net that the bird catcher had set for them.
(F) That evening when the pigeons came back, they flew down together to the foot of the the banyan tree.
(A) The dangers of conflicting irrational majoritarianism with enlightened consensus are, indeed, great in developing democracy.
(B) Real democracy is about mediating the popular will through a network of institutional structure and the law of the land.
(C) While law making and governance are meant to articulate the latter, the judiciary is supposed to protect the former from any kind of excess that might occur,
(D) Unwittingly or otherwise, in the conduct of legislative and governmental functions.
(E) The principle of separation of powers is meant to embody a desirable tension between individual rights and social consensus.
1. In the sciences, even questionable examples of research fraud are harshly punished.
P. But no such mechanism exists in the humanities—much of what humanities researchers call research does not lead to results that are replicable by other scholars.
Q. Given the importance of interpretation in historical and literary scholarship, humanities researchers are in a position where they can explain away deliberate and even systematic distortion.
R. Mere suspicion is enough for funding to be cut off; publicity guarantees that careers can be effectively ended.
S. Forgeries which take the form of pastiches in which the forger intersperses fake and real parts can be defended as mere mistakes or aberrant misreading.
6. Scientists fudging data have no such defences.
1. It is easy to criticize the people at the helm, for the slow progress in every field.
P. We are well aware that the intellectuals are leaving our country for better employment opportunities.
Q. Then the question remains unanswered because our country cannot show opportunities to the intellectuals.
R. Then, what about their obligation to the Motherland?
S. First, we should ask ourselves as to what is happening to the young intellectuals in India.
6. This situation of ‘Brain-Drain’ leads to a variety of problems.
1. Love is one of the earliest of human passions.
P. It is also one of the sweetest.
Q. Love should be directed towards a worthy object.
R. But, like all strong passions it may, if not well regulated and controlled, lead us into misery.
S. Or it will prove in the end a source of bitterness.
6. Love, moreover, looks forward to reciprocation.
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