S1: Foreigners find India either exotic because of the rich multi-culturalism and mysticism, or appalling because of lack of sanitation, infrastructure and development.
(i) But Marta Vanduzer Snow, an American Ph.D. student, moved to rural India convinced that India needed a different approach.
(ii) Martha has developed a three-pronged development strategy and chose Amethi and Rae Bareli to put up a small-scale model.
(iii) Also, as against the Rs. 400,000 per 100 meter that government incurred in building the interlocking road, Martha got permeable road constructed at only Rs. 200,000.
(iv) She got evapotranspiration toilets built at half the cost of similar government projects in villages of Rae Bareli and Amethi.
S6: An Amartya Sen development economics fan, Marta has also set up 27 solar power plants, including two street lights and a mobile charger.
(a) Indian political life has been dominated by our sentiment of opposition to alien value
(b) Thus social and moral atmosphere is not suitable for democracy
(c) And the leaders idealised tradition
(d) The constitution was not product of urge for freedom
(e) Consequently democratic aspirations were relegated to the background
S1 : People have always been fascinated by dreams.
S6 : But a small number, perhaps less than 5% have them regularly.
P: In fact, only recently have there been serious studies to find out how many of us actually have nightmares.
Q: Now that is changing.
R: But the study of nightmares has been curiously neglected.
S: While results so far are inconclusive, it seems fair to say that at least half the population has occasional nightmares.
The correct sequence should be
| S1: | It is regrettable that there is widespread corruption in the country at all levels. |
| P : | So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it now. |
| Q : | And there are graft and other malpractices too. |
| R : | The impression that corruption is universal phenomenon persists and the people not cooperate in checking this evil. |
| S : | Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment. |
| S6: | This is indeed a tragedy of great magnitude. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | Forecasting the weather has always been a difficult business. |
| P : | During a period of drought, streams and rivers dried up, the cattle died from thirst and were ruined. |
| Q : | Many different things affect the weather and we have to study them carefully to make accurate forecast. |
| R : | Ancient Egyptians had no need of weather in the Nile Valley hardly ever changes. |
| S : | In early times, when there were no instruments, such as thermometer or the barometer, man looked for tell-tale signs in the sky. |
| S6: | He made his forecasts by watching flights of the birds or the way smoke rose from fire. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | American private lies may seem shallow. |
| P : | Students would walk away with books they had not paid for. |
| Q : | A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library |
| R : | Their public morality, however, impressed visitors. |
| S : | But in general they returned them. |
| S6: | This would not happen in china, he said. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | The study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their language. |
| P : | But they succeed in playing games of chess. |
| Q : | Some patients, for example fail to find the names of objects presented to them. |
| R : | They can even use the concepts needed for chess playing, though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language. |
| S : | They even find it difficult to interpret long written notices. |
| S6: | How they manage to do this we do not know. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | Since the sixties there has been an increasing interest in neurophysiology, which deals with the neural bases of mental activity and behaviour. |
| P : | It has format which is very similar to that of Brain and Language, a sister journal. |
| Q : | Since then, a number of journals devoted entirely to this area of research have appeared. |
| R : | Before the 1960’s when this field was the concern of a small number of investigators, research articles were scattered in various neurological journals. |
| S : | Brain and cognition is one such journal. |
| S6: | So far the journal has published the mixture of articles including reports and investigations. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | It was a dark moonless night. |
| P : | He turned over the pages, reading passages here and there. |
| Q : | He heard them on the floor. |
| R : | The poet took down his books of poems from his shelves. |
| S : | Some of them contained his earliest writings which he had almost forgotten. |
| S6: | They all seemed to him to be poor and ordinary mere childish words. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | This weather-vane often tops a church spire, tower or high building. |
| P : | They are only wind-vanes. |
| Q : | Neither alone can tell us what the weather will be. |
| R : | They are designed to point to direction from which the wind is coming. |
| S : | Just as the barometer only tells us the pressure of air, the weather-vane tells us the direction of wind. |
| S6: | The weather-vane can, however give us some indication of other. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | We speak today of self-determination in politics. |
| P : | So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit. |
| Q : | Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good. |
| R : | There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another. |
| S : | Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people. |
| S6: | Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | While talking to a group, one should feel self-confident and courageous. |
| P : | Nor is it a gift bestowed by providence on only a few. |
| Q : | One should also learn how to think calmly and clearly. |
| R : | It is like the ability to play golf. |
| S : | It is not as difficult as most men imagine. |
| S6: | Any man can develop his capacity if he has the desire to do so. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | The dictionary is the best friend of you task. |
| P : | That may not be possible always. |
| Q : | It is wise to look it up immediately. |
| R : | Then it must be firmly written on the memory and traced at the first opportunity. |
| S : | Never allow a strange word to pass unchallenged. |
| S6: | soon you will realize that this is an exciting task. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders. |
| P : | They are usually much quicker than the ant itself. |
| Q : | Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants. |
| R : | Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping. |
| S : | They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails. |
| S6: | Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance. |
The Proper sequence should be
| S1: | When a satellite is launched, the rocket begins by going slowly upwards through the air. |
| P : | However, the higher it goes, the less air it meets. |
| Q : | As the rocket goes higher, it travels faster. |
| R : | For the atmosphere becomes thinner. |
| S : | As a result there is less friction. |
| S6: | Consequently, the rocket still does not become too hot. |
The Proper sequence should be:
| S1: | All the land was covered by the ocean. |
| P : | The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two halves. |
| Q : | A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water. |
| R : | The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars. |
| S : | The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals. |
| S6: | The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind. |
The Proper sequence should be:
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple – to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulatory mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy
This is to be activated by removing the barriers and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
A. This is because your witness will be called upon to testify in court if the will is ever challenged.
B. Lawyers advise people to use witnesses who are younger than they and are likely to outlive them.
C. You will need to sign the document in the presence of two witnesses, who will then have to put the signature on it.
D. It helps if a doctor is a witness or the document is signed in his presence.
This is because he could be called upon to testify to the stability of your mental condition when you drew up the will.
1: Isaac possessed a wonderful faculty of acquiring knowledge by the simplest means.
P: Yet nothing could be more simple.
Q: You will never guess how the boy could compel that unseen wonder, the wind to tell him the measure of its strength.
R: For instance, what methods do you suppose he took to find out the strength of the wind?
S: He jumped against the wind and by the length of the jump he could calculate the force of the wind.
6: Thus, even in his boyish sports, he was continually searching out the secrets of philosophy.
1: Hungary, with a population of about 10 million, lies between Czechoslovakia to the north and Yugoslavia to the south.
P: Here a great deal of grain is grown.
Q: In recent years, however, progress has been made also in the field of industrialization.
R: Most of this country consists of an extremely fertile plain, through which the river Danube flows.
S: In addition to grain, the plain produces potatoes, sugar, wine, and livestock.
6: The new industries derive mainly from agricultural production.
1: Jagdish was tired after the long walk through the thick jungle.
P: As night fell he came to a swampy place near a lake; where he decided to camp.
Q: At last, in despair, he sprang into the branches of a nearby tree and climbed to the top.
R: But the place was so full of mosquitoes that he found it impossible to sleep.
S: He spread a blanket on the ground and stretched himself out on it.
6: Here, to his satisfaction, he found that there were hardly any mosquitoes.
1. The skin has other defence mechanisms.
A. With all these defences, why do we get sunburned at all?
B. After the first burning doses of ultraviolet rays have begun unleashing free radicals, cells in the top layers of skin begin reproducing rapidly.
C. The skin thickens and hardens, making it more difficult for ultraviolet rays to penetrate.
D. If even this fails and the skin flushes with sunburn, it will speed up its normal but usually unnoticed shedding – or peeling – of damaged and old cells.
6. The answer lies in part with our industrial civilization.
1: Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.
P: One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows.
Q: A man of another country will not to do so.
R: It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.
S: Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.
6: In any case, we should not mock at others habits.
1: If we dump sewage into a stream, on a small scale, the stream dissolves it and purifies it.
P: It can no longer deal even with the small quantity of sewage which it once accepted without difficulty.
Q: Ten miles downstream the water is pure again.
R: The system has broken down.
S: But if we dump large quantities of sewage, we end by killing the purifying bacteria and then the stream has lost its power to purify.
6: For this overwhelming kind of pollution we need to coin a new term which we call super-pollution.
1: Most of the universities in the country are now facing financial crisis.
P: Cost-benefit yardstick thus should not be applied in the case of universities.
Q: The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue for long.
R: Universities cannot be equated with commercial enterprises.
S: Proper development of universities and colleges must be ensured.
6: The Government should realize this before it is too late.
1: There is still another important characteristic of living things.
P: One generation is not a perfect copy of the preceding generation.
Q: Plants and animals are not exactly like their parents.
R: That attribute is the capacity to evolve.
S: There is a continual realignment of inherited characteristics.
6: And abrupt changes occur too, which are called mutations.