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S1:But how does a new word get into the dictionary?
P :When a new dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically arranged citation slips for a particular word.
Q :The dictionary makers notice it and make a note of it on a citation slip.
R :The moment new word is coined, it usually enter the spoken language.
S :The word then passes from the realm of hearing to the realm of writing.
S6:He sorts them according to their grammatical function, and carefully writes a definition.
The Proper sequence should be:

PQRS
PRSQ
RQPS
RSQP
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S1:For decades, American society has been calling a melting pot
P :Differences remained - in appearence, mannerisms, customs, speech, religion and more.
Q :The term has long been a cliche and half-truth.
R :But homogenisation was never acheived.
S :Yes, immigrants from diverse cultures and traditions did cast off vestiges of their native lands and become almost imperceptibly woven in to the American fabric.
S6:In recent years, such differences accentuated by the arrival of immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world in the United States - have become something to celebrate and to nurture.
The Proper sequence should be:

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S1:In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.
P :For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q :On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R :While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the feel of this committe.
S :As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
S6:From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.
The Proper sequence should be:

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S1:A force of exists between everybody in the universe.
P :Normally it is very small but when the one of the bodies is a planet, like earth, the force is considerable.
Q :It has been investigated by many scientists including Galileo and Newton.
R :Everything on or near the surface of the earth is attracted by the mass of earth.
S :This gravitational force depends on the mass of the bodies involved.
S6:The greater the mass, the greater is the earth s force of attraction on it. We can call this force of attraction gravity.
The Proper sequence should be:

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S1:Satyajit Ray made several films for children.
P :Later film makers have followed his lead.
Q :Today other nations are making the children s film in a big way.
R :This was at a time when no director considered children as potential audience.
S :Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the field.
S6:But today few think of Ray as a maker of children s films.
The Proper sequence should be:

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S1:Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.
P :As a result there horrendous congestion.
Q :It was going to be the first in South Asia.
R :They run down the centre of the road
S :To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.
S6:The foundation stone was laid in 1972.
The Proper sequence should be:

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S1:Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14 Nov 1889.
P :Nehru meet Mahatma Gandhi in February 1920.
Q :In 1905 he was sent to London to study at a school called Haroow.
R :He became the first Prime Minister of Independent India on 15 August 1947.
S :He married Kamla Kaul in 1915.
S6:He died on 27 May 1964.
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S1:Throughout history man has used energy from the sun.
P :Today, when we burn wood or use electric current we are drawing an energy.
Q :However we now have a new supply of energy.
R :All our ordinary life depends on sun.
S :This has come from the sun.
S6:This energy comes from inside atoms.
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S1:Biological evolution has not fitted man to any specific environment.
P :It is by no means a biological evolution, but it is a cultural one.
Q :His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, makes it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change.
R :And that series of inventions by which man from age by age has reshaped his environment is a different kind of evolution.
S :Among the multitude of animals which scamper, burrow swim around us he is in the only one who is not locked in to his environment.
S6:That brilliant sequence of cultural peaks can most appropriately be termed the ascent of man.
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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 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:

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S1:For some time in his youth Abraham Lincoln was manager for a shop.
P :Then a chance Customer would come.
Q :Young Lincoln way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else s
R :Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.
S :He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.
S6:Never before had Lincoln had so much time for reading as had then.
The Proper sequence should be:

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