1). Thus begins the search for relief: painkillers, ice, yoga, herbs, even surgery
2). Most computer users develop disorders because they ignore warnings like tingling ngers, a numb
hand or a sore shoulder
3). They keep pointing and dragging until tendons chafe and scar tissue forms, along with bad habits
that are almost impossible to change
4). But cures are elusive , because repetitive stree injuries present a bag of ills that often defy easy
diagnosis
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A. We have constructed it from unfortunate habits of thought about how to handle spiralling public
debt.
B. With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump,
it is time to admit that the trap is entirely of our own making.
C. People developed these habits on the basis of the experiences of their families and friends: when in
debt trouble, one must cut spending and pass through a period of austerity until the burden (debt
relative to income) is reduced.
D. It seems like common sense – even moral virtue – to respond this way.
E. That means no meals out for a while, no new cars and no new clothes.
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1). Behaviour is just the evidence for mind, not its very nature.
2). The view that a mind can be reduced to patterns in behaviour is a hypothesis long abandoned.
3). Thus you can act as if you are in pain and not really be in pain.
4). The turning test, one may say, is seriously awed.
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1). Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one of the rst of a long line of thinkers to worry whether such
rough equality could survive in the face of a growing factory system that threatened to create divisions
between industrial workers and a new business elite.
2)."The government of democracy brings the nation of political rights to the level of the humblest
citizens. He wrote ," Just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of property within the reach
of all the members of the community".
3). Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the US, but his verdict was
fundamentally positive.
4). No visitor to the US left a more enduring record of his travels and observations than the French
writer and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, whose ‘Democracy in America’, rst published in 1835,
remains one of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American social and political practises.
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A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means bombing the factories
which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, what you want to do
is bum his elds, or if you’re really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means destroying the
information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, and depending upon the economic
foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do
battle with its enemy.
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A. Since then, intelligence tests have been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average
or bright children, so that special education can be provided to the dull.
B. In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age.
C. Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what an
average child of a certain age can do: what a 5-year-old can answer, but a 4-year-old cannot, for
instance.
D. Binet developed the rst set of such tests in the early 1900s to nd out which children in school
needed special attention
. E. Intelligence can be measured by tests.
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A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too “in fact he returns to the point often ” that best translators of poetry always
fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and stre
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A. These children may look normal but their brain development and immune systems most certainly are
not.
B. The media focus on children who are desperately thin and obviously wasting away means that
chronic under nutrition – just as deadly – can be overlooked.
C. In the same regions, about 7%-15% of children suffer from wasting.
D. Their stunted height is a grisly marker of multiple deprivations regarding food intake, care and play,
clean water, good sanitation and health care.
E. Approximately 40% of all children under ve in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are short for their
age.
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A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany‘s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been
completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
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A. In the case of King Merolchazzar‘s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a
regrettable hitch.
B. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
C. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighbouring princess, dispatches messengers with gifts to
her court, beseeching an interview.
D. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along
pretty smoothly.
E. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.
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A. He felt justied in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves . B. At times he was ghting the
entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not ghting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy busin ess, and a CEO of the White House does not like a
legislature of second guessers and time wasters
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A. From what we eat to how much energy we consume: everything is trackable, not least because our
gadgets come equipped with clever sensors.
B. Take the recent obsession with self-tracking.
C. Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in
theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
D. But it won’t take long for governments to start exploring self-tracking as a solution to problems that
could, and probably should, be tackled differently.
E. Right now, most of such self-tracking efforts come from the grass-roots enthusiasts.
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1). There are times when one is not sure of the direction in which a sector will move.
2). Everytime such a thing happens you wish to include in your portfolio some of the stocks scaling the
new highs every day.
3). While the index and several scripts may be running with each passing day, the investor may nd that
the specic shares in his portfolio are hardly moving.
4). All this can lead to rash decisions.
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Duryodhana was a wicked prince.
P - One day Bhima made Duryodhana fall from a tree from which Duryodhana was stealing fruits
Q - He did not like that Pandavas should be loved and respected by the people of Hastinapur.
R - Duryodhana specially hated Bhima.
S - Among the Pandavas, Bhima was extraordinarily strong and powerful.
T - This enraged Duryodhana so much that he began think of removing Bhima from his way.
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A. However, Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, has signalled he is opposed to a ban and
appears to support the position of the insecticide manufacturers and farming lobby who argue that
banning such products would harm food production.
B. A recent poll found that 71% of Britons would support such a ban. Got any questions? I'm happy to
help.
C. The move would be warmly welcomed by environmentalists who have long argued that "neonics"
should be banned.
D. European ofcials are set to vote on a proposal that would see a group of insecticides known as
neonicotinoids, which have been implicated in the decline of bees, largely outlawed across the
continent.
E. The debate raises the wider question of how valuable bees, and other pollinators, are to our
agricultural economy
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A. The newspaper man, the ower seller, the milkman, the sweeper, they are all privy to the chatting and
sharing of news that the elderly nd comforting.
B. When we remove them from their homes, it is not only the family that they are being removed from,
but all those other people that they see every day and whose joys and woes become their own.
C. In our system of living, the elderly at home have a circle of acquaintances, and friends.
D. The loneliness of the discarded elderly is manifold.
E. When we forcibly remove people from surroundings they have been part of for decades we put an
un-mendable tear in the fabric of their lives
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A. One example is El Nino, the periodic catastrophe that plagues the West Coast of America.
B. It is rich in life.
C. This coast is normally caressed by the cold, rich Humboldt Current.
D. Usually, the Humboldt hugs the shore and extends 200 to 300 miles out to sea.
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A. If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own
habits of thinking and reecting.
B. Marx thought that religion was the opiate because it soothed people’s pain and suffering and
prevented them from rising in rebellion.
C. If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
D. Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive
tendencies.
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A. The number of development studies courses offered by colleges and universities has grown over the
last 20 years.
B. What are you hoping to get out of your course?
C. Has your interest been sparked by other studies, travel, or family connections?
D. As the new academic year begins for some people this month, we would like to hear what is
motivating you to study development.
E. The content of those courses has also changed to reect new interests and trends in the sector, with
topics covering a range of subjects, from economics and politics, to the environment, gender and
anthropology.
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1. Water is a renewable natural resource and public good.
A. However, most rivers, ponds, lakes and aquifers are common property.
B. Hence, excluding others from using water is not possible and the results are competition,
overextraction and conict.
C. But the ownership right on land bestows a private character on water.
D. Therefore, water rights are not clearly dened and the right to using the resources is not protected.
6. However, cooperation has a greater role in achieving social harmony in water allocation and
increasing human welfare.
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A. With that, I swallowed the shampoo, and obtained most realistic results on the spot
B. The man shufed away into the back regions to make up a prescription, and after a moment I got
through on the shoptelephone to the Consulate, intimating my location. Got any questions? I'm happy
to help.
C. Then, while the pharmacist was wrapping up a six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and
inquired whether he could give me something for acute gastric cramp.
D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack, and entering an old-fashioned pharmacy, I asked for a
popular shampoo mixture, consisting of olive and aked soap
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A. Some of the worst cancers aren’t detected by screening.
B. The only way to be sure is to look at the results of randomized trials comparing cancer deaths in
screened and unscreened people.
C. So how can we be condent that getting a screening test regularly is a good idea?
D. Even when screening “works” in such trials, the size of the benet observed is surprisingly low:
Generally, regular screening reduces fatalities from various cancers between 15 percent and 25
percent.
E. They appear suddenly, between regular screenings, and are difcult to treat because they are so
aggressive.
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A. By reasoning, we mean the mental process of drawing an inference from two or more statements or
going from the inference to the statements, which yield that inference.
B. So logical reasoning covers those types of questions, which imply drawing an inference from the
problems.
C. Logic means if we take its original meaning, the science of valid reasoning.
D. Clearly, for understanding arguments and for drawing the inference correctly, it is necessary that we
should understand the statements rst.
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A. Cleaner nations will become richer and their economies grow faster than dirty nations.
B. If Africa were to burn its own coal reserves, the resultant carbon emissions would cause trillions of
dollars of damage to the rest of the world.
C. . A global carbon market will create a new global system of economic values
D. But if the developed world can't clean up the globe on its own, it can create market conditions that
make reduction in carbon emissions an economic priority for every nation
E. Of course, the US – and all developed nations for that matter – can't solve the emissions problem
alone
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1). The potential exchanges between the ofcials of IBBF and the Maharashtra Body-Building Association
has all the trappings of a drama we are accustomed to.
2). In the case of sports persons, there is room for some sympathy, but the apathy of the
administrators, which has even led to sanctions from international bodies, is unpardonable.
3). A case in the point is the hefty penalty of US $10,000 slapped on the Indian Body-Building
Federation for not fullling its commitment for holding the Asian Championships in Mumbai in October.
4). It is a matter of deep regret and concern that the sports administrators often cause more harm to
the image of the country than sportsmen and sportswomen do through their dismal performances.
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A. Instead, the new machines test for viral load, to verify if the virus is in the blood.
B. So, it is not possible to conrm whether the baby is positive.
C. Adults are normally diagnosed on the basis of antibodies, but when babies are born they still have
those of their mother.
D. But accurately testing children remains a challenge in much of the country.
E. About 400 centres across Mozambique now have printers that can quickly receive test results by
GPRS .
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A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of
disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women
from less thriving classes. Got any questions? I'm happy to help.
C. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation—being low class and being female—
that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women
very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class
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1). The trade union declared a strike.
2). Unemployment touched 20 per cent.
3). The nance minister put a cap of $ 2000 a month on cash withdrawals.
4). The Argentines withdrew 2.3$ billion from their bank accounts.
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A. People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their mouths or an open cut.
B. At rst, they look the perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy.
C. A study estimates that in 1995, there were as many as 6,700 reptile-caused salmonella infections.
D. But lizards and other pets can harbour a salmonella bacterium that makes people sick.
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A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully
the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must
decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing
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