Read the comprehension and answer the questions that follow:Soft bodied animals like caterpillars often fall a prey to voracious hunters like birds or reptiles. Despite having no means to actively defend themselves,with weapons like claws or jaws, they have nevertheless, evolved other equally effective deterrents. A particular species of the caterpillar lives at an altitude over 2.500 metres in the Himalayas.It uses prominent colour to inform would be predators of its in edibility. In the event that an inexperienced or adventurous bird did eat the caterpillar, it would probably vomit it soon after,and subsequently desist from attacking similar species in future. Though this would do the unfortunate victim no good, the species benefits. A rare example of the martyr among animals.The expression "others equally effective deterrents" mean
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The Himalayan caterpillar uses prominent colours to |
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Experienced birds do not attack the Himalayan caterpillars because they are |
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Read the comprehension and answer the questions that follow:It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficiallyacquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any knownin the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made. Fears are inevitable in time,but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the goodthat will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way,is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions.We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentely glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous;and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.What does science liberate s from? It is liberate us from |
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To carve out a bright future man should |
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Fears and hopes according to the author |
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In the context of this passage, a martyr is one who dies |
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. If she ___________ about his financial situation, she would have helped him out. |
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The sun ______ at 9 last night. |
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By the time she arrives, we ________________ our homework. |
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