S1: We are living in an age in which technology has suddenly 'annihilated distance'.
P: Are we going to let this consciousness of our variety make us fear and hate each other?
Q: Physically we are now all neighbours, psychologically we are still strangers to each other.
R: How are we going to react?
S: We have never been so conscious of our variety as we are now that we have come to such close quarters.
S6: In that event, we should be dooming ourselves to wipe each other out.
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S1: As a dramatist Rabindranath was not what might be called a success.
P: His dramas were moulded more on the lines of the traditional Indian village dramas than the dramas of the modern world.
Q: His plays were more a catalogue of ideas than a vehicle of the expression of action.
R: Actually drama has always been the life of the Indian people, as it deals with legends of gods and goddesses.
S: Although in his short stories and novels he was able to create living and well-defined characters, he did not seem to be able to do so in his dramas.
S6: Therefore, drama forms the essential part of the traditional Indian culture.
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S1: One of the most dangerous insect pests is the locust.
P: At first they look just like ordinary grasshoppers, which are harmless and unable to fly very far.
Q: Until about thirty years ago, no one knew where locusts came from or why they appeared in the different countries they attacked.
R: Then they change in appearance and develop wings which enable them to fly long distance.
S: Then it was discovered that there are two stages in the life of locusts.
S6: At this stage, they gather in huge numbers and rise from the ground on theri powerful wings in cloud.
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S1: In 1857, fighting broke out all over the country.
P: Everywhere the people rose in rebellion.
Q: In March 1858 British troops attacked the fort of Jhansi.
R: Thousands of people were killed on both sides.
S: The British fought back.
S6: The Rani's troops fought back bravely.
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S1: Savita was lonely in the house.
P: She was very good at that.
Q: She sat all day in a little room off the main drawing room.
R: She would sit on the rug and do needle work.
S: It was a little room with nothing in it but a few chairs and a rug.
S6: It was the only thing she had learnt from the Convent school.
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S1: We talk about democracy, but when it comes to any particular thing, we prefer a man belonging to our caste and community.
P: We must be in a position to respect a man as a man.
Q: It means our democracy is a phoney kind of democracy.
R: We must extend opportunities of development to those who deserve them.
S: Our weakness for our own caste and community should not influence our decision.
S6: Favouritism and nepotism have been responsible for much discontent in our country.
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S1: A man handed a pair of trousers to the departmental store-clerk and said,"I'd like these altered, please".
P: He said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt.
Q: The man said,"Okay, I'd like to return the trousers". The clerk took them back and returned his money.
R: The man pushed the money and said,"Now I want to buy them". The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued receipt and handed him both.
S: The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it.
S6: Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipt on the counter and said,'I'd like to have these altered, please."
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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 the crops were ruined.
Q: Many different things affect the weather and we have to study them carefully to make an accurate forecast.
R: Ancient Egyptians had no need of this 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.
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S1: The motor car is one of the useful gifts of modern science.
P: One of these is the smoke and pollution that it creates.
Q: It has made short and medium distance journeys fast and comfortable.
R: The other is that it has made journey by road hazardous.
S: Yet we can't say that a motor car is a blessing without disadvantages.
S6: Finally in this age of energy crisis a personal car is an expensive thing.
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S1: The earliest reference to the playing card has been found in China, as long ago as the tenth century.
P: They appeared in Italy around 1320.
Q: Long before that the Chinese use paper money which was similar in design to the playing cards.
R: It is believed that perhaps travelling gypsies introduced them to Europe.
S: In olden days cards were used both for telling fortune and playing games.
S6: The current pack of 52 cards was only regulated in the seventeenth century.
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S1: Evolution is not progress.
P: And yet, for all their differences, it is not wholly wrong to identify evolution with progress.
Q: As a noted scientist had said,"the tapeworm in its inglorious lot in man's intestine is an outcome of evolution as well as the lark at heaven's gate."
R: Three hundred million years after the first land creatures crawled out of the sea, the one-called amoeba is man himself.
S: The physical facts of evolution betray such advance.
S6: For, like progress, evolution does, over the long run, imply betterment.
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S1: As I say, I was born and brought up in an atmosphere of the confluence of three movements, all of which were revolutionary.
P: I was born in a family which had to live its own life, which led me from my young days to seek guidance for my own self-expression in my own inner standard of judgement.
Q: No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from some shop of respectability.
R: But the language which belonged to the people had to be modulated according to the urging which I as an individual had.
S: The medium of expression, doubtless, was my mother tongue.
S6: He should not only have his own seeds but prepare his own soil.
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S1: Welcome to Madam Tussaud's.
P: Famous faces, notorious faces haunt these halls; royalty, and world leaders mingling with sports stars and murderers.
Q: But don't expect any responses to your smiles or greetings.
R: Don't be surprised at anything you see here.
S: See how many you can recognise.
S6: These life-like, casually posed figures are mere wax statues, though they may look alive.
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S1: In the last few years, there has been increasing realisation of the importance of fibrous diet.
P: Its role in human nutrition was not fully understood.
Q: Plants contain indigestible substances in their cell-walls, and these contain fibre.
R: Later research has thrown light on many other ingredients that are not digested by man.
S: In the early days, people only knew that this fibre prevented constipation.
S6: This has resulted in a better appreciation of the role of fibrous food in human health.
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S1: The 'age of computers' is considered to have begun in 1946.
P: Those early computers were huge and heavy affairs, with problems of speed and size.
Q: It was only with the introduction of electronics that the computers really came of age.
R: But computers were in use long before that.
S: They had several rotating shafts and gears which almost always doomed them to slow operation.
S6: And now it is difficult to find a field where computers are not used.
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S1: After the firing that evening the street that used to be full of people was completely deserted.
P: Nor were any windows open or lighted.
Q: Suddenly I detected a movement to my left.
R: There was no trace of any human being and all doors were firmly closed.
S: Surprisingly, even the stray dogs had disappeared.
S6: I was so frightened that I ran for my life.
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S1: Hungary, with a population of about ten 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 industrialisation.
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.
S6: The new industries derive mainly from agricultural production.
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S1: When Weiner was travelling in India, he visited a factory where he saw small frail children sitting on damp ground.
P: And the answer he got was that they were weaving carpets there.
Q: So he asked,"What are they doing there?"
R: And then he decided to study the problems of child labourers in India.
S: Weiner was shocked at the plight of the child workers.
S6: Recently he has published this book and it is winning him acclaim all over the world.
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S1: There are divergent theories of education.
P: There is still another which holds that education has to be considered rather in relation to community than to the other.
Q: Yet again, some believe that a right proportion of all the theories should go into every system.
R: The other holds that the purpose of education is to impart culture.
S: The first considers that the sole purpose of education is to provide opportunities for growth.
S6: No actual education proceeds wholly and completely on any one of the theories.
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S1: We don't see many banyan trees in our cities now-a-days.
P: But in our overcrowded cities, where there is barely enough living space for people, banyan trees don't have much of a chance.
Q: These trees like to have plenty of space in which to spread themselves out.
R: Of course, many parks have banyan trees.
S: After all, a full grown banyan takes up as large an area as a three-storey apartment building.
S6: And every village has at least one.
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