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S<sub>1</sub>: Let me elaborate a little on what I mean by a properly channeled scientific approach.<br>P: There are planners deciding the strategy.<br>Q: In a major war, there are several different operations involved.<br> R: There are complex issues involving communications between different nerve centres.<br> S: There are factories producing the required armaments.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: And of course, there are soldiers, commandos, to say nothing of intelligence men, besides many others who do their bit to make a successful attack.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their language.<br> P: But they succeed in playing games of chess.<br>Q: Some patients, for example, fail to find the names of objects presented to them.<br>R: They can even use the concepts needed for chess playing, though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language.<br>S: They even find it difficult to interpret long written notices.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: How they manage to do this we do not know.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: We may consider the political privileges of citizenship.<br>P: This gives the citizen the pleasant feeling that he has a share in the administration of his country.<br>Q: In addition, he may himself stand as a candidate for election to any office of the republic to which he belongs.<br>R: A citizen usually enjoys the right of voting of election to public bodies, and of holding public offices.<br>S: These advantages are of course only enjoyed by citizens under a democratic system of government.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Under a dictatorship, people cannot choose their own representatives to run the government and the rights of voting and contesting are denied to them.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The mother tongue is the true vehicle of mother wit.<br>P: Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas.<br>Q: It is through the vernacular (refined, though not weakened,by scholarship and taste) that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in speech.<br>R: But the mother tongue is one with the air in which a man is born.<br>S: This is almost universally true, except in cases so rare (like that of Joseph Conrad) as to emphasise the general rule.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: A man's native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Egypt is located in north-east of Africa.<br>P: The land should be productive.<br>Q: It is on the coast of Mediterranean Sea.<br>R: The important thing is not just the area.<br> S: Its area is almost four times that of England.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Egypt is mostly desert or semi-desert.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: When you meet someone and discover areas of common interest and experience, you gain building blocks to develop a deeper relationship.<br>P: This gives you and your partner an opportunity to decide if you would like to get to know one another better.<br>Q: Remember, much of the point of conversation is to discuss different topics and experience in order to find a common bond.<br>R: So, when you discover a connection, tell your partner right away.<br>S: If you have enough in common, then hopefully you will want to see each other again to share common interests.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: This creates a sense of familiarity and indicates your interest in discussing the topic further and sharing your ideas.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Most people know that economics deals with such items as population, natural resources, incomes, tariffs, money and prices.<br>P: Instead, it is how it organises and analyses its materials; it is the perspective from which it views the world that makes it a special field of study.<br>Q: However, it is not what economics deals with that makes it a distinctive science.<br>R: Indeed, the list of topics can be greatly extended.<br> S: Economics is a particular view of reality.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: From this view, human behaviour is seen as activity directed towards the achievement of various objectives through the use of various resources.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Of course, it is silly to try to overcome fears that keep us from destroying ourselves.<br>P: This is sensible.<br>Q: You wait until it is out of the way before crossing.<br>R: You need some fears to keep you from doing foolish things.<br>S: You are afraid of an automobile coming rapidly down the street you wish to cross.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: The only fears you need to avoid are silly fears which prevent you from doing what you should do.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Life is hazardous.<br>P: And prey have evolved adaptations that reduce the risk of being eaten.<br>Q: Many animals are killed and eaten by other animals.<br>R: And many predators die from starvation because they fail to secure prey.<br>S: Predators have continued to evolve adaptations that enable them to locate and kill prey.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Everything points to a special kind of arms race with elaborate strategies and counter-strategies for attack and defence.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Films developed from the silent stage to the talkie stage with a tremendous mass appeal.<br>P: Film makers of those days used film media to portray our struggle for freedom.<br>Q: The thirties and forties were decades of tremendous social, political and cultural upheavals.<br>R: That is what 'Alam Ara' did to the delirious delight of the audience and thus triggered off a revolution.<br>S: In the turbulent thirties, the silent Indian films began to talk, sing and dance.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Extolling the virtues of bravery and making patriotic films was the order of the day.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: You might say that all through history there have been wars and that mankind has survive inspite of them.<br>P: Now, if his purposes are those of destruction, each fresh advance in his mastery of nature only increases the danger from war, as men learn to destroy one another in ever great numbers, from ever great distances, and in ever more varied and ingenious ways.<br>Q: He has learned to tap the hidden forces of our planet and use them for his purpose.<br>R: It has even developed and become civilised inspite of them.<br>S: This is true, but unfortunately as part of his development man has enormously increased his power over nature.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Man has now discovered how to release the colossal forces locked up in the atom.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.<br>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.<br>Q: A man of another country will not do so.<br>R: It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.<br>S: Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: In any case, we should not mock at other's habits.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Even the newsmen and spectators were not spared.<br>P: A home guard in the gallery was hit on the face.<br>Q: They went only inches over the heads of newsmen in the press gallery.<br>R: Three bludgeons which are hurled missed their mark.<br>S: This made the scribes run helter skelter.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: He fell down,his bleeding eye bulging.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Instantly the full load yanked Gordy towards the side of the bridge.<br>P: But the pull of the cable was too much.<br>Q: He could hardly feel the cable, slipping through his fingers, ripping off his gloves, and streaking over the railing like an escaping snake.<br>R: It smashed his hands hard against the top of the railing, causing a split - second feeling of fierce pain followed by numbness.<br> S: He held on to the cable; it had been hard work lifting it, and he did not want to have to start over again.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Feeling a sharp burning sensation where the cable was speeding between his things, Gordy rose on tiptoe and as he did, the slithering coil of cable tightened around his left foot and yanked him over the railing.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: We don't know whether the machines are the masters or we are.<br>P: They must be given or rather 'fed' with coal and given petrol to drink from time to time.<br>Q: Already man spends most of his time looking after and waiting upon them.<br>R: Yet he has grown so dependent on them that they have almost become the masters now.<br> S: It is very true that they were made for the sole purpose of being man's servants.<br> S<sub>6</sub>: And if they don't get their meals when they expect them, they will just refuse to work.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The essence of democracy is the active participation of the people in government affair.<br>P: When the people are active watchmen and participants, we have that fertile soil in which democracy flourishes.<br>Q: This democracy of ours is founded upon a faith in the overall judgement of the people as a whole.<br>R: When the people do not participate, the spirit of democratic action dies.<br>S: When the people are honestly and clearly informed, their common sense can be relied upon to carry the nation safely through any crisis.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: By and large it is the actual practice of our way of life.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Why then, do sharks attack?<br>P: "The only way a shark can warn you is with its mouth and teeth," says Baldridge.<br>Q: In murky water it may simply be a case of mistaken identity.<br>R: Snork bumps and open - mouthed slashings are ways of trying to frighten you off.<br> S: But the most persuasive explanation is that they perceive their victim as a threat.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Attacks of this kind may be generated by a swimmer who unwittingly interrupts a courting procedure, trespasses in a shark's territory and cuts off its escape route.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Music, like literature, is an art that deals with sound.<br>P: Literature makes use of words which are sounds.<br>Q: They also have meanings.<br>R: And the writer must be concerned with the effect produced by the sounds he uses.<br>S: But words are not only sounds.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: They refer to specific things other than themselves such as objects an ideas.<br><br> The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: We speak today of self-determination in politics.<br>P: So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to bear it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit.<br>Q: Slavery begins when one ceases to feel the restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good.<br>R: There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture on another.<br> S: Political subjection primarily means restraint ion the outer life of people.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: India's non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality.<br>P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations.<br>Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality.<br>R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments.<br>S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.<br>P: Dwarka is the first among them.<br>Q: They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing.<br>R: It is coming up in the south-west of the capital.<br>S: It will cater to one million people when completed.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Hopefully the housing problem will not be as cute as at present after these sub-cities are built.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.<br> P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.<br>Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.<br>R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.<br>S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us.<br>P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events.<br>Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man.<br>R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people.<br>S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: It is regrettable that there is widespread corruption in the country at all levels.<br>P: So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it.<br>Q: And there are graft and other malpractices too.<br>R: The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do not cooperate in checking this evil.<br>S: Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: This is indeed a tragedy of great magnitude.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: There is no transportation system in any city that can compare in efficiency with the circulatory system of the body.<br>P: The larger one goes from the heart to the various other parts of the body.<br> Q: If you imagine two systems of pipes, one large and one small, both meeting at a central pumping station, you'll have an idea of the circulatory system.<br>R: These pipes are called arteries, veins and capillaries.<br>S: The smaller system of pipes goes from the heart to the lungs and back.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: Arteries are blood vessels in which blood is going away from the heart.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Exercising daily is a must for good health.<br>P: Luckily, there is no link between the amount of money spent and beneficent exercise, else the poor would have creaking bodies for ever.<br>Q: While some cost you nothing, others may require the investment of some amount of money.<br>R: However, it is important to remember that exercises should not be overdone.<br>S: It can take any form from sedentary ones like walking to vigorous work - outs like a game of squash.<br> S<sub>6</sub>: The key word, always, is moderation.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Urban problem differ from State to State and city to city.<br>P: Most of the cities have neither water nor the required pipelines.<br>Q: The population in these cities has grown beyond the planners imagination.<br>R: However, certain basic problems are common to all cities.<br>S: Only broad macro - planning done for such cities, without envisaging the future growth, and this has failed to meet the requirements.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: There is no underground drainage system in most cities, and the narrow historical roads are already congested.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The right way to get people do things the way you want is not to compel them, drive them or for that matter even beg them or entreat them.<br>P: The sure way to antagonise an individual is to give him the impression that you are out to force or compel him to do something.<br>Q: The correct way is, therefore, to arouse a want in them and make them do, whatever you want them to do willingly, happily and eagerly.<br>R: It is the most difficult thing in the world to make an individual do anything against his will.<br>S: Even young, innocent children resent being made to do things.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: The secret of motivation, therefore, lies in your ability to arouse the right kind of want or thirst in the other people.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: Religion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity.<br> P: It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us.<br>Q: It is not a question of ceremonial piety.<br>R: Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man.<br>S: It is the remaking of your own self, the transformation of your nature.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be:
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S<sub>1</sub>: The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention.<br>P: One of these is undue absorption in the past.<br>Q: One's thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which these is something to be done.<br>R: Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age.<br>S: It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead.<br>S<sub>6</sub>: this is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight.<br><br>The Proper sequence should be: