S1: A father, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to slip into a pub for a glass of beer.
P: Indignant at her husband's behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
Q: She wheeled away the pram.
R: A little later, his wife came by, where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
S: Leaving the pram outside, he disappeared inside the bar.
S6: She waited for him, anticipating the white face and quivering lips which would soon appear with the news that the baby had been stolen.
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S1: In the present day it is not necessary that generals or great officers should fight with their own hands, because it is their duty to direct he movements of their followers.
P: But in the ancient times, kings and great lords were obliged to put themselves into the very front.
Q: Therefore, it was of great consequence that they should be strong men and dexterous in the use of their arms.
R: The artillery and the soldiers shoot at the enemy, and men seldom mingle and fight hand to hand.
S: They fought like ordinary men with the lance and other weapons.
S6: Robert Bruce was so remarkably active and powerful that he came through many personal dangers.
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S1: And then Gandhi came.
P: Get off the backs of these peasants and workers, he told us, all you who live by their exploitation.
Q: He was like a powerful current of fresh air, like a beam of light, like a whirlwind that upset many things.
R: He spoke their language and constantly drew their attention to their appalling conditions.
S: He didn't descend from the top, he seemed to emerge from the masses of India.
S6: Political freedom took new shape then and acquired a new content then.
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S1: Love for the country is a necessity.
P: But it should in no way exceed the limits and take the shape of jingoism.
Q: Similarly nationalism has to be sacrificed at the altar of internationalism.
R: There is no reason why the nations of the world cannot treat one another as belonging to one family of nations.
S: Provincialism has to be sacrificed in the interest of the nation as a whole.
S6: God created the globe, but man drew lines on it to demarcate countries and sow the seeds of hatred and enmity on it.
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S1: There has been an alarming increase in the number of vehicles on Delhi roads.
P: The pedestrians has, however, been the worst sufferer.
Q: There is no place where the pedestrian can move freely without the fear of traffic.
R: Zebra crossings like the pavements are no longer safe.
S: This has further aggravated the problem of pollution in the city.
S6: Should the pedestrians case be allowed to go by default?
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S1: Our own country is a little world in itself with an infinite variety and places for us to discover.
P: I wish I had more time, so that I could visit the odd nooks and corners of India.
Q: I have travelled a great deal in this country and I have grown in years.
R: And yet I have not seen many parts of the country we love so much and seek to serve.
S: I would like to go there in the company of bright children whose minds are opening out with wonder and curiosity as they make new discoveries.
S6: I should like to go with them, not so much to the great cities of India as to the mountains and the forests and the great rivers and the old monuments, all of which tell us something of India's story.
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S1: The mail is first collected from different letter boxes.
P: From there it is sent to the head post office.
Q: It is then sorted out at the sorting office.
R: The mail is again sorted out at the head office by the concerned beat postman.
S: The sorted mail is sent to the zonal post office.
S6: Finally it is delivered to us.
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S1: Mr. Ford, it is commonly reported, once declared that history was "bunk".
P: Yet the American, generally speaking, is by no means ignorant of history or uninfluenced by his knowledge of it.
Q: This remarkable utterance of his, if indeed he made it, was in itself an outcome of history.
R: The Americans know more about our history than we know about theirs, though I hope that will soon be remedied.
S: Such contempt for all things past, and such engaging frankness in expressing it were themselves the outcome of the social history of the United States in the 19th century.
S6: And the American's conception of his own country as the representative of freedom and of democracy is the product of history as popularly taught and conceived over there.
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S1: She used to work at the desk next to mine in the office several years ago.
P: But it must have been exasperating that a male sitting beside her was doing the same work as she was and being paid more.
Q: She is certain to be still there , in the same old brown suit and fur lined boots.
R: She was as kind as she was efficient.
S: Now she and all her friends have won their long campaign for the justice of equal pay to be recognised.
S6: I am glad that their demands have been accepted.
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S1: Of the various kinds of insect defences that of the North American fungus - eating beetle is quite unusual.
P: Both ants as well as mammals such as deer mice feed on this beetle.
Q: This little beetle is able to recognise the kind of predator coming towards it and accordingly adopts a suitable defence.
R: When facing a deer mouse, the beetle secretes an irritant from certain glands in its abdomen.
S: While the beetle simply rolls itself into a compact ball in the face of an ant attack, it copes with the deer mouse differently.
S6: The beetle's chemical secretion keeps the deer mouse at bay.
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S1: In a good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it need be.
P: I am not, of course, thinking of extreme forms of defiance.
Q: If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and, therefore, tend to let you alone.
R: A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of him than when they treat him with contempt, and the human herd has something of this same characteristic.
S: Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
S6: If you hold in Delhi the views that are conventional in Delhi, you much accept the consequences.
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S1: You live either in a village or a town of India.
P: Many villages and towns form a tehsil or a taluka.
Q: There are also some areas in our country called Union Territories.
R: Many tehsils or talukas form a district and many districts form a State.
S: These, together with all the states of our country make India.
S6: India is our motherland.
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S1: The tooth had abscessed and was causing considerable pain.
P: Finally, in desperation, she went inside a wooden pyramid model and sat down praying for miracles.
Q: Since it was Sunday morning, no dentist was available.
R: What happened she is not sure, but after ten minutes the pain simply faded away.
S: Common pain killers had been of no avail.
S6: It has not returned to this day.
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S1: The third five - year plan ran into rough weather from the very start.
P: Large funds had to be diverted from development to defence.
Q: Food situation became critical and prices began to rise steep after the Indo - Pak conflict.
R: During this period, there was also the war with Pakistan in 1965.
S: There was the China War in 1962 which completely upset our economy.
S6: The government had to resort to devaluation of the rupee.
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S1: The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention.
P: One of these is undue absorption in the past.
Q: One's thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which these is something to be done.
R: Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age.
S: It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead.
S6: this is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight.
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S1: Religion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity.
P: It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us.
Q: It is not a question of ceremonial piety.
R: Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man.
S: It is the remaking of your own self, the transformation of your nature.
S6: A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred.
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S1: 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.
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.
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.
R: It is the most difficult thing in the world to make an individual do anything against his will.
S: Even young, innocent children resent being made to do things.
S6: The secret of motivation, therefore, lies in your ability to arouse the right kind of want or thirst in the other people.
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S1: Urban problem differ from State to State and city to city.
P: Most of the cities have neither water nor the required pipelines.
Q: The population in these cities has grown beyond the planners imagination.
R: However, certain basic problems are common to all cities.
S: Only broad macro - planning done for such cities, without envisaging the future growth, and this has failed to meet the requirements.
S6: There is no underground drainage system in most cities, and the narrow historical roads are already congested.
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S1: Exercising daily is a must for good health.
P: Luckily, there is no link between the amount of money spent and beneficent exercise, else the poor would have creaking bodies for ever.
Q: While some cost you nothing, others may require the investment of some amount of money.
R: However, it is important to remember that exercises should not be overdone.
S: It can take any form from sedentary ones like walking to vigorous work - outs like a game of squash.
S6: The key word, always, is moderation.
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S1: There is no transportation system in any city that can compare in efficiency with the circulatory system of the body.
P: The larger one goes from the heart to the various other parts of the body.
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.
R: These pipes are called arteries, veins and capillaries.
S: The smaller system of pipes goes from the heart to the lungs and back.
S6: Arteries are blood vessels in which blood is going away from the heart.
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