Ordering of Sentence (Part-2) (CDS-Solved Paper)

S₁ : There isn’t a cricketer worth his salt who does not aspire for captaincy.
S₆ : It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed.
P : Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain.
Q : At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team.
R : In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy.
S : Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team.
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S₁ : Systematic and ceaseless efforts are being made to tap scientifically the abundant solar energy available in the country.
S₆ : Installation of solar thermal systems and devices has helped to save or generate energy to the extent of 350 kWh per annum.
P : These include cooking, water heating, water desalination, space heating, etc.
Q : A large number of applications in the area have already become commercial.
R : Efforts are also afoot to develop economically viable solar collectors for high temperature applications.
S : A simple and common mode in solar energy utilisation is solar thermal conversion.
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S₁ : The houses in the Indus Valley were built of baked bricks.
S₆ : They led outside into covered sewers which ran down the side of the streets.
P : This staircase sometimes continued upwards on to the roof.
Q : Access to the upstairs rooms was by a narrow stone staircase at the back of the house.
R : The drains were built in the walls.
S : The houses had bathrooms and water closets, rubbish chutes and excellent drainage systems.
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S₁ : I remember, some years ago, the library of a famous divine and literary critic, who had died, being sold.
S₆ : Yet, he was a holy man and preached admirable sermons.
P : Multitudes of the books had the marks of libraries all over the country.
Q : It was a splendid library of rare books, chiefly concerned with seventeenth century writers,
R : Evidently, he was very possessive about the books he borrowed.
S : He had borrowed them and never found a convenient opportunity of returning them.
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S₁ : Of course, it is silly to try to overcome fears that keep us from destroying ourselves.
S₆ : The only fears you need to avoid are silly fears which prevent you from doing what you should do.
P : This is sensible.
Q : You wait until it is out of the way before crossing.
R : You need some fears to keep you from doing foolish things.
S : You are afraid of an automobile coming rapidly down the street you wish to cross.
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S₁ : Nobody likes staying at home on a public holiday—especially if the weather is fine.
S₆ : It was very peaceful in the cool grass—until we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill.
P : We had brought plenty of food with us and we got it out of the car.
Q : The only difficulty was that millions of other people had the same idea.
R : Now everything was ready so we sat down near a path at the foot of a hill.
S : We moved out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars, but at last we came to a quiet country road and after some time, stopped at a lonely farm.
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S₁ : The teaching work for the term is over.
S₆ : For this, weekend trips do not suffice, and a longer stay is necessary.
P : That will end on October 13th and the Diwali vacation will begin from October 14th.
Q : After I complete the assessment of examination papers, I plan to go and stay at our house in Lonavala for at least a week.
R : Next week the terminal examination begins.
S : There is a lot of repair work that needs to be carried out in the house.
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S₁ : A proposal to remove from circulation 5 paise coins has been given up by the Centre on advice from the Reserve Bank of India.
S₆ : It is, however, proposed to reduce the costs of minting these coins by changing their metallic content.
P : The government had been thinking of removing from circulation even the 10 paise coin.
Q : The cost of minting a 5 paise coin is said to be 7 paise while the cost of minting a 10 paise coin is 10.5 paise.
R : Moreover their removal would cause tremendous hardship to some people. S : The RBI had opposed this saying that they figure largely in public transactions.
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S₁ : It is common knowledge that people go after different objects in the world to get happiness.
S₆ : He is conscious of the fact that happiness is within and not without.
P : The wise man with a properly attuned mind is happy with them, in spite of them and without them too.
Q : Can a condemned prisoner, awaiting execution on the morrow, relish food, however delicious?
R : But a little reflection will prove that in reality, these sense-objects, by themselves, can never make a person happy.
S : It is a folly to equate objects with happiness.
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S₁ : History shows that the growth of civilisation depends upon the gifts of nature, particularly the wealth yielded by the soil.
S₆ : In fact, most of the wars in the beginning of humanity’s history were fought for the gain of territory.
P : The more land they had, the more they were satisfied.
Q : The nature and the quality of the land they possessed were of great importance to them.
R : All ancient communities worked hard to produce food.
S : There was also a great desire among them to possess as much land as possible.
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