| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| S1: | On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe. | | P : | At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a dingy fez. | | Q : | soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me. | | R : | But this one wouldn t budge. | | S : | We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them. | | S6: | Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter and he wants your order" |
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