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. |
S1: | The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area. |
P : | Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form a Hound at midnight on the moor. |
Q : | But they spoke of it in tones of horror. |
R : | Nobody had actually seen the hound. |
S : | This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal. |
S6: | The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery. |
S1: | A gentleman who lived alone always had two plates placed on the table at dinner time. |
P : | One day just as he sat down to dine, the cat rushed in to the room. |
Q : | One plate was for himself and other was for his cat. |
R : | she drooped a mouse into her own plate and another into her master plate. |
S : | He used to give the cat a piece of meat from his own plate. |
S6: | In this way the cat showed her gratitude to her master. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
S1: | Palaeobotany is the study of fossil plants preserved in rocks dating back in millions of years. |
P : | Records of the history of the world are contained in fossils. |
Q : | Through the ages, plants have evolved from simple to more complex forms. |
R : | First there were water plants then land plants appeared during the Paleozoic era. |
S : | But since the fossil remains appear locked in rock layers, they are closely related to the geologist area of investigation. |
S6: | The fossil plants indicate the age of the rock, and also point to facts regarding climate, temperature and topography. |
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" |
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. |
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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