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. | The Proper sequence should be:
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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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S1: | All the land was covered by the ocean. | P : | The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two halves. | Q : | A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water. | R : | The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars. | S : | The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals. | S6: | The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | When a satellite is launched, the rocket begins by going slowly upwards through the air. | P : | However, the higher it goes, the less air it meets. | Q : | As the rocket goes higher, it travels faster. | R : | For the atmosphere becomes thinner. | S : | As a result there is less friction. | S6: | Consequently, the rocket still does not become too hot. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy. | P : | There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice. | Q : | In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, no buses. | R : | These small islands are near one another. | S : | It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands. | S6: | This is because Venice has no streets. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders. | P : | They are usually much quicker than the ant itself. | Q : | Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants. | R : | Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping. | S : | They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails. | S6: | Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Hungary, with a population of about 10 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. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | We speak today of self-determination in politics. | P : | So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit. | Q : | Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good. | R : | There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another. | S : | Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people. | S6: | Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start. | The Proper sequence should be:
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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 dre their attention to their appalling conditions. | S : | He didn t descent from the top, he seemed to emerge from the masses of India. | S6: | Political freedom took new shape and then acquired a new content. | The Proper sequence should be:
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