PARA JUMBLES (GENERAL ENGLISH)

P : It had been umpteen years since we had seen each other.
Q : One dull dark in autumn, I was travelling on horseback through a dreary stretch of countryside.
R : This was the house of Roderick Usher, who had been my childhood pal.
S : At night fall, I came in sight of the house of Usher.

P : According to various estimates between 1942 and 1944 there were approximately 400 victims of this practice daily in Warsaw alone, with numbers on some days reaching several thousands.
Q : A common German practice in occupied Poland was to roundup random civilians on the streets of Polish cities.
R : For example, on 19th September 1942 close to 3000 men and women were transported by train to Germany – they had been caught in the massive round - ups all over Warsaw the previous two days.
S : The term, “lapanka” (Polish for ‘roundup’) carried a sardonic connotation from the word’s earlier use for the children’s game known in English as “tag”.

P : But he did not know how to find one at that hour.
Q : It was his first visit to the city and he didn’t know where to go.
R : Mohanlal’s train was late and it reached Kolkata a little after midnight.
S : He thought he would go to a choultry where he would not have to pay rent.

P : And slowly, you reach the pinnacle of self - awareness, experiencing a unity with all life.
Q : If you transform your energy positively, it naturally becomes compassion and love.
R : Once you experientially are a part of everything then nobody needs to teach you morality.
S : Then you can do something to improve the situation, but without anger.

P : The aim must be to ensure that our country does not experience either paucity or a-surfeit of trained manpower in any specific segment of our economy.
Q : When we set about the task of higher education, we should be absolutely clear in our perception of the goals of education in the specific context of our nation’s development.
R : No doubt, one of the important aims of education would be to create the required range and nature of trained manpower assessed to be needed by different sectors of national growth.
S : The entire educational apparatus must be geared progressively to fulfill the requirements of different phases of our growth in every sector primary, secondary and tertiary.

A. Classical music, by contrast, encodes maturity and, by extension, the demands of responsibility to family and to society.
B. The meaning of the commercial emerges out of this odd juxtaposition of the music you see and the music you hear.
C. What the commercial is saying (though not in so many words, of course) is that you can begin responsible  financial planning without selling out on your youth, freedom, and spontaneity.
D. Rock stands for youth, freedom, being true to yourself; in a word, authenticity.
E. Through music, the commercial accomplishes a kind of conjuring trick, combining both sets of values and in this way selling the advertiser’s message (you need to start planning for your old age now) to a segment of society that might be expected to be resistant to it.

A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility.
B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, are both moving in a direction that is positive for a good monsoon.
C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the four-month period of July- September indicates rain around the end of this month.
D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the right direction.
E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most of central and Northern India is likely to help in good rainfall.

A. It is against this background and in this context that we must begin our understanding of political theory.
B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it increasingly clear that in man, most of the other primates, and in many other animal species as well, social life and organization are primary biological survival devices.
C. What we call political and social organization— the customs, practices, and procedures that with varying degrees of firmness hold men together in interrelated groups— is perhaps the most important form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.
D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine, but he does have social life and the capacity to organize it effectively for survival purposes.

1. Education in India had a glorious beginning.
P. But after the British rule, it faced many changes.
Q. It went on for centuries with the same glory.
R. English as the medium of instruction had a very great response.
S. One of the changes was the introduction of English as the medium of instruction.
6. As the Britishers left we had a complexity of opinions regarding English

1. It is easy to criticize the people at the helm, for the slow progress in every field.
P. We are well aware that the intellectuals are leaving our country for better employment opportunities.
Q. Then question remains unanswered because our country cannot show opportunities to the intellectuals.
R. Then, what about their obligation to the Motherland?
S. First, we should ask ourselves as to what is happening to the young intellectuals in India.
6. This situation of ‘Brain-Drain’ leads to a variety of problems.