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S1: It is regrettable that there is widespread corruption in the country at all levels.
P: So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it.
Q: And there are graft and other malpractices too.
R: The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do not cooperate in checking this evil.
S: Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment.
S6: This is indeed a tragedy of great magnitude.

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22.
S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us.
P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events.
Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man.
R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people.
S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.
S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion.

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23.
S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.
P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.
Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.
R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.
S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.

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24.
S1: Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.
P: Dwarka is the first among them.
Q: They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing.
R: It is coming up in the south-west of the capital.
S: It will cater to one million people when completed.
S6: Hopefully the housing problem will not be as cute as at present after these sub-cities are built.

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25.
S1: India's non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality.
P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations.
Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality.
R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments.
S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.
S6: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world.

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26.
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 bear it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit.
Q: Slavery begins when one ceases to feel the 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 on another.
S: Political subjection primarily means restraint ion 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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27.
S1: Music, like literature, is an art that deals with sound.
P: Literature makes use of words which are sounds.
Q: They also have meanings.
R: And the writer must be concerned with the effect produced by the sounds he uses.
S: But words are not only sounds.
S6: They refer to specific things other than themselves such as objects an ideas.

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28.
S1: Why then, do sharks attack?
P: "The only way a shark can warn you is with its mouth and teeth," says Baldridge.
Q: In murky water it may simply be a case of mistaken identity.
R: Snork bumps and open - mouthed slashings are ways of trying to frighten you off.
S: But the most persuasive explanation is that they perceive their victim as a threat.
S6: Attacks of this kind may be generated by a swimmer who unwittingly interrupts a courting procedure, trespasses in a shark's territory and cuts off its escape route.

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29.
S1: The essence of democracy is the active participation of the people in government affair.
P: When the people are active watchmen and participants, we have that fertile soil in which democracy flourishes.
Q: This democracy of ours is founded upon a faith in the overall judgement of the people as a whole.
R: When the people do not participate, the spirit of democratic action dies.
S: When the people are honestly and clearly informed, their common sense can be relied upon to carry the nation safely through any crisis.
S6: By and large it is the actual practice of our way of life.

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30.
S1: We don't know whether the machines are the masters or we are.
P: They must be given or rather 'fed' with coal and given petrol to drink from time to time.
Q: Already man spends most of his time looking after and waiting upon them.
R: Yet he has grown so dependent on them that they have almost become the masters now.
S: It is very true that they were made for the sole purpose of being man's servants.
S6: And if they don't get their meals when they expect them, they will just refuse to work.

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