Ordering Sentences into a Paragraph in CUET English

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P. She wrapped it in an old towel and carried it inside.

Q. After a warm bowl of milk, the puppy stopped shaking and fell asleep.

R. Meena found a small puppy shivering outside her gate one rainy evening.

S. The next morning, her father agreed that they could keep it.

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P. Growing a bean plant at home is easy.

Q. Water the pot every day, and within a week the first green shoots will appear.

R. First, soak a few beans in water overnight.

S. Next, plant them in a pot of soil, about two centimetres deep.

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P. Honeybees live in large groups called colonies.

Q. Each colony has one queen, who lays all the eggs.

R. They clean the hive, feed the young, guard the door and collect nectar.

S. The thousands of worker bees are all female, and they do every other job.

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P. The passengers got out to help him, and together they pushed the tree aside.

Q. The bus stopped suddenly in the middle of the forest road.

R. He found that a large tree had fallen across the road.

S. The driver got down to see what was wrong.

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P. Because it is so close, its light reaches us in only about eight minutes.

Q. It looks much bigger and brighter only because it is much closer to us.

R. Light from the next nearest star takes more than four years.

S. The Sun is a star, like the thousands of others we see at night.

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P. He stayed in the water so long that his mother had to call him out.

Q. On the first morning, he ran down to the beach before breakfast.

R. Arjun had never seen the sea before his trip to Goa.

S. The waves were bigger than he had imagined, and the water was warm.

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P. Pour in cold water, stir again and serve with ice.

Q. Add four spoons of sugar and the salt, and stir until they dissolve.

R. To make lemonade, you need lemons, sugar, water and a pinch of salt.

S. Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a jug.

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P. Camels are well suited to life in the desert.

Q. They can go for days without drinking water.

R. Their wide, flat feet are another help, because they stop them sinking into the soft sand.

S. When they do find water, they can drink as much as a hundred litres in about ten minutes.

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P. It began with a march past by all the houses.

Q. At the end of the day, Green House was given the trophy for the most points.

R. The school's annual sports day was held last Friday.

S. After that came the races, and the crowd cheered every runner.

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P. Her mother smiled when she saw it all and gave her a big hug.

Q. Sunita wanted to surprise her mother on her birthday.

R. She got up early, made tea and toast, and put them on a tray.

S. Then she picked a flower from the garden and placed it beside the cup.

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P. Each drop bends the light and splits it into its colours.

Q. These colours spread out into a band across the sky.

R. You see the band only when the Sun is behind you and the rain is in front of you.

S. A rainbow appears when sunlight passes through drops of rain.

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P. By the time we reached the lions, it was lunchtime and they were fast asleep.

Q. The first animals we saw were the elephants, bathing in a pool.

R. Our class went on a trip to the zoo last week.

S. After the elephants, we watched the monkeys swinging from branch to branch.

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P. It also eats dead leaves and leaves behind waste that makes the soil rich.

Q. An earthworm has no eyes, no ears and no legs.

R. Yet it is one of the most useful creatures in a garden.

S. As it moves through the soil, it makes tunnels that let in air and water.

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P. Rohan could not find his new pen when he sat down in class.

Q. He looked for it in his bag and in all his pockets.

R. Rohan thanked him and promised to be more careful.

S. At lunch, his friend Aman found it under Rohan's desk.

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P. If the water is heated further, it boils and turns into steam.

Q. When it is heated, it melts and becomes water again.

R. When the steam cools, it turns back into drops of water.

S. Ice is frozen water.

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P. Every summer, she buys raw mangoes from the market.

Q. She cuts them into pieces and dries them in the sun for two days.

R. My grandmother makes the best mango pickle in our family.

S. Then she mixes them with oil, salt and spices and fills a big jar.

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P. But almost all of it is salty sea water.

Q. That is why it is important not to waste the fresh water we have.

R. Water covers about seventy per cent of the Earth's surface.

S. The rest, only a very small part, is fresh water that we can drink.

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P. My father dug the hole, and I held the sapling straight.

Q. My sister filled the hole with soil and pressed it down.

R. Last Sunday, our family planted a mango tree in the garden.

S. Finally, my mother watered it, and we all hoped it would grow tall.

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P. He also runs from the vacuum cleaner and even from his own shadow.

Q. But when a mouse came into the kitchen last week, Sheru chased it all the way to the garden.

R. Neha's cat, Sheru, is afraid of almost everything.

S. He hides under the bed when the doorbell rings.

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P. The Taj Mahal stands on the bank of the river Yamuna in Agra.

Q. Today, millions of visitors come every year to see its white marble.

R. He brought about twenty thousand workers, who took about twenty years to finish it.

S. It was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

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P. Then he rides off to the next street, still ringing his bell.

Q. He rings his bell twice, and everyone comes out with a pot.

R. Every morning, the milkman comes to our street on his bicycle.

S. He pours out the milk from a large can that hangs on the side.

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P. In the water, they use these flippers to swim very fast.

Q. Penguins are birds, but they cannot fly.

R. On land, they walk slowly or slide on their bellies over the ice.

S. Their wings are short and stiff, like flippers.

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P. One day, the school announced a chess competition.

Q. Amit was the smallest boy in his class, and he was often teased.

R. Amit entered, though his friends laughed at him.

S. He beat every player in the school and won the cup.

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P. They carry crumbs and seeds into their nest.

Q. When the rain comes, their food and their home stay dry.

R. Before the rains, the ants in our garden get very busy.

S. They also seal the openings with bits of mud.

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P. A simple kind has a thin tube of liquid inside it.

Q. The number beside the top of the liquid gives the temperature.

R. A thermometer measures how hot or cold something is.

S. When the liquid gets warmer, it expands and rises up the tube.

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P. Last night, the power went off during a storm.

Q. My grandfather told us stories of his childhood in the village.

R. We were almost sorry when the lights came back on.

S. We lit candles and sat together in the living room.

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P. At first, Sachin was scared to let go of the side.

Q. Sachin wanted to learn to swim before the summer holidays ended.

R. His uncle took him to the pool every morning.

S. By the end of the month, he could swim across the pool alone.

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P. By the afternoon, the sun had come out, and the snowman had begun to melt.

Q. Last of all, a teacher lent them an old scarf to put round his neck.

R. The children in Shimla built a snowman in the school ground.

S. They gave him a carrot for a nose and two stones for eyes.

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P. Insects that fly into the web get stuck, and the spider comes to eat them.

Q. A spider's web is made of silk that comes from its own body.

R. The spider first spins a few strong threads like the spokes of a wheel.

S. Then it spins a sticky thread round and round, from the outside in.

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P. This summer, the terrace gave us enough tomatoes for the whole season.

Q. My mother grows vegetables on our small terrace.

R. Every evening, she waters them and pulls out any weeds.

S. She uses old buckets and broken pots as planters.

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P. It eats about a hundred and fifty kilograms of plants every day.

Q. An adult can weigh as much as six thousand kilograms.

R. To find so much food, a herd may walk many kilometres in a day.

S. Elephants are the largest animals that live on land.

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P. At last, he found it caught on a tree outside the post office.

Q. The kite floated away over the houses.

R. Sameer was flying his kite on the roof when the string snapped.

S. He ran down the stairs and chased it through three streets.

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P. Next, oil the chain so that it turns smoothly.

Q. Finally, carry a pump and a repair kit in case of a puncture.

R. First, make sure the tyres are full of air and the brakes work well.

S. Before a long ride, it is wise to check your bicycle.

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P. It also flies without a sound, so the mouse never hears it coming.

Q. The owl hunts at night, when most birds are asleep.

R. Its large eyes help it see in the dark.

S. Its ears are even better than its eyes: it can hear a mouse moving under the leaves.

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P. He tells her about his cows and his garden, and she tells him about school.

Q. Deepa's grandfather lives alone in a village far from the city.

R. Before she puts the phone down, he always asks when she will visit.

S. Every Sunday, Deepa calls him on the phone.

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P. Many people think that bats are blind.

Q. In fact, most bats can see quite well.

R. They make high sounds and listen for the echoes that bounce back from objects.

S. Many of them also use echoes to find their way in the dark.

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P. Last year, at the age of seventy, she joined an evening class in the village.

Q. Today she reads the newspaper to the whole family every morning.

R. She had left school at eight to help at home, and never went back.

S. Ravi's grandmother had always wanted to learn to read.

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P. It was once found across the dry grasslands of India, but now survives mainly in Rajasthan.

Q. It has disappeared from most of those grasslands because they have been turned into farms.

R. The Great Indian Bustard is one of the heaviest flying birds in the world.

S. Many of the birds that remain also die by flying into power lines, which they cannot see well.

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P. Perhaps he had given the boy too much change.

Q. He remembered that a boy had paid for a pen with a large note that afternoon.

R. The shopkeeper counted the money twice, but it was still a hundred rupees short.

S. Just then, the boy walked back into the shop and held out a hundred-rupee note.

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P. For this reason, several states have banned thin plastic bags.

Q. Shoppers are now asked to carry cloth or jute bags instead.

R. Until they do, they block drains and choke the animals that eat them.

S. Plastic bags take hundreds of years to break down.

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P. That night, his neighbours came over to charge their phones and share his dinner.

Q. Only one house still had its lights on.

R. When the storm knocked out the power, the whole colony went dark.

S. It belonged to an old engineer who had fixed solar panels on his roof years ago.

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P. That is why the western slopes of the Western Ghats are among the wettest places in the country.

Q. Winds blowing from the sea carry moisture over the land.

R. When these winds meet the hills, they rise and cool, and the moisture falls as rain.

S. The monsoon brings most of India's rain between June and September.

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P. She got on the wrong bus and reached twenty minutes late.

Q. Priya's first day at the new school did not start well.

R. But the girl at the next desk smiled and pushed her own book across to share.

S. Her class had already begun, and every head turned when she opened the door.

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P. Hold the burnt skin under cool running water for about twenty minutes.

Q. The first step in treating a burn is to cool it.

R. Finally, if the burn is large or deep, see a doctor as soon as possible.

S. Do not use ice instead of the water, and never put butter or toothpaste on a burn.

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P. He always sat on the same bench and brought a bag of grain.

Q. The pigeons waited on the empty bench until it grew dark.

R. Every evening, an old man fed the pigeons in the park near our house.

S. One day in winter, he did not come.

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P. Today, ships use satellites, but many sailors still learn to read the stars.

Q. By finding it, a sailor knew which way his ship was heading.

R. In the past, sailors found their way at night by looking at the stars.

S. The Pole Star was the most useful, because it always stays in the north.

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P. The village school had only one teacher for five classes.

Q. In this way, the whole school learned together, like one large family.

R. She taught the youngest children in the morning and the older ones after lunch.

S. When the older children finished their work early, they helped the little ones read.

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P. So the best way to control them is to leave no water standing around the house.

Q. They breed in still water, even in the small amount left in a flowerpot or an old tyre.

R. Mosquitoes spread diseases such as malaria and dengue.

S. Covering water tanks and emptying coolers every week can make a big difference.

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P. She crept down the stairs with a torch, her heart beating fast.

Q. There, in the torchlight, was the neighbour's cat, eating the leftover fish.

R. A strange sound woke Kavya in the middle of the night.

S. It seemed to come from the kitchen.

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P. Later, Indian clubs were formed, and the game spread to cities across the country.

Q. At first, it was played only by British soldiers and officials.

R. Today it is the most popular sport in India, followed by millions.

S. Cricket came to India with the British in the eighteenth century.

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P. The new library in our town opened last month.

Q. There is also a corner for children, with picture books and small chairs.

R. It has more than ten thousand books and a quiet reading room.

S. Since it opened, both the reading room and the children's corner have been full every evening.

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P. Bamboo is a kind of grass, not a tree.

Q. Because it grows so fast, it can be cut again and again without harming the plant.

R. This makes it a good material for building, furniture and even paper.

S. Some kinds can grow almost a metre in a single day.

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P. The old ferry was the only way across the river.

Q. Last year, a bridge was built a little way downstream.

R. Now the ferry sits empty, and the ferryman sells tea to people crossing the bridge.

S. Every morning, it carried workers, students and goats to the town on the far bank.

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P. A tired student may forget answers that were learned well the day before.

Q. But research shows that sleep helps the brain store what we have learned.

R. Many students study late into the night before an exam.

S. So an early night can do more good than an extra hour of reading.

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P. Within two months, the lake was clean and ducks had come back to it.

Q. Seeing them at work, more people joined them the next week.

R. On the first Sunday, they pulled out over fifty bags of plastic and rubbish.

S. A group of friends decided to clean up the lake near their colony.

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P. It sits very still on a branch above the water, watching.

Q. Then it flies back to the branch and beats the fish against it before swallowing it.

R. The kingfisher is a small bird with bright blue and orange feathers.

S. When it sees a fish, it dives straight down and catches it in its beak.

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P. When he finally bought it, he took photos of everything: birds, trees, people, even his breakfast.

Q. Rajesh had saved for two years to buy a camera.

R. Now he wants to become a photographer.

S. One of his photos, of an old woman selling flowers, won a prize in a newspaper competition.

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P. When the water is too warm, the coral turns white and can die.

Q. Although they cover less than one per cent of the ocean floor, they are home to about a quarter of all sea creatures.

R. Coral reefs are sometimes called the rainforests of the sea.

S. But reefs are in danger, because the seas are getting warmer.

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P. The first day of the fair was a disaster.

Q. It rained all morning, and the ground turned to mud.

R. The next day, the sun came out, and the crowds were the biggest the town had seen.

S. Half the stalls could not open, and very few people came.

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P. An old man planted a small mango tree beside the road.

Q. A boy asked him why he bothered, since he would never live to eat its fruit.

R. Now, he said, it was his turn to plant for someone else.

S. The old man smiled and said that the trees he ate from had been planted by others.

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P. Many dictionaries also give an example sentence to show how the word is used.

Q. A dictionary does more than give the meaning of a word.

R. Some even tell you where the word came from, such as Latin, Arabic or Sanskrit.

S. It shows how the word is spelt and how it is said.

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P. This is one reason it has always been played in villages across the country.

Q. It needs no equipment at all: only a flat piece of ground and two teams.

R. In recent years, a professional league has made it popular on television too.

S. Kabaddi is one of the oldest games in India.

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P. She reached the hall with two minutes to spare.

Q. Finally, an auto-rickshaw driver saw her worried face and offered to take her.

R. She waited at the stop for twenty minutes, checking her watch.

S. Hema's bus was late, and her exam started at nine.

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P. It was made from the bark of trees, old rags and fishing nets, beaten into a pulp.

Q. Paper was invented in China about two thousand years ago.

R. By the twelfth century, paper was being made in Spain.

S. The secret was kept for centuries, but it slowly spread along the trade routes to the west.

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P. Its first passenger train ran between Bombay and Thane in 1853.

Q. The Indian Railways is one of the largest railway networks in the world.

R. Since then, the network has grown to reach almost every part of the country.

S. It runs thousands of trains every day and carries millions of passengers.

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P. Our neighbour, Mrs Das, used to be afraid of computers.

Q. Now she reads the news online and makes video calls to her daughter in Delhi.

R. Last year, her grandson taught her how to use a tablet.

S. She has even started a cooking channel, which has over a thousand followers.

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P. A stick stood upright in the ground cast a shadow that moved through the day.

Q. Long before clocks, people told the time by the Sun.

R. By marking where the shadow fell at each hour, they made the first sundials.

S. Sundials worked well, but they were useless on cloudy days and at night.

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P. The owner, an old man who lived alone upstairs, had not been seen.

Q. The shop had been closed for a week, and the neighbours began to worry.

R. They found him sitting in his chair, with a broken leg but alive and very hungry.

S. At last, one of them called the police, who broke open the door.

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P. A good night's sleep begins long before bedtime.

Q. Avoid tea and coffee after the early evening, as they keep the brain awake.

R. Then read a book or listen to quiet music until you feel sleepy.

S. Later, turn off screens an hour before bed, because their light tells the body it is still day.

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P. They spent about two and a half hours outside their spacecraft.

Q. In 1969, two astronauts became the first people to walk on the Moon.

R. Their footprints are still there, because there is no wind on the Moon to blow them away.

S. During that time, they collected rocks and set up tools to study the Moon.

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P. It has done the same every day since, and the whole street now calls it Asha's dog.

Q. But the next morning, it was waiting at the gate to walk her to school.

R. She gave it some water and a chapati, thinking it would go away.

S. A stray dog followed Asha home from school one afternoon.

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P. The canopy blocks most of the sunlight, so the forest floor below is dark.

Q. Their tops form a thick roof of leaves, called the canopy.

R. Only plants that need very little light can grow down there.

S. Some trees in the rainforest grow taller than a twenty-storey building.

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P. By the end of the term, it had the best results in the school.

Q. The new teacher did something no teacher had done before: she learned every student's name on the first day.

R. The class, which had been noisy for years, began to listen.

S. By the second day, she knew who liked cricket and who wanted to be a doctor.

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P. Others reply that a little homework helps children remember what they learned in class.

Q. They argue that children need time to play, rest and be with their families.

R. Perhaps the answer lies between the two: less homework, but of a better kind.

S. Some people say that homework is a waste of a child's evening.

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P. A vaccine trains the body to fight a disease before it strikes.

Q. If the real germ ever enters, these defences destroy it quickly.

R. It does this by showing the body a harmless form or part of the germ.

S. The body learns to recognise the germ and makes defences against it.

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P. By evening, the whole street had heard the news.

Q. The letter arrived on a Tuesday, three weeks after Kiran had given up hope.

R. He read it aloud slowly: the college in Pune had offered her a place.

S. Her hands shook so much that her brother had to open it for her.

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P. Yet doctors say that even thirty minutes a day can lower the risk of heart disease.

Q. So a daily walk may be worth more than an expensive gym plan that is never used.

R. It needs no equipment, no fees and no special skill.

S. Walking is one of the simplest ways to stay healthy.

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P. A scribe could spend many months on a single long book.

Q. At that speed, books stayed rare and costly, and were found mostly in churches and palaces.

R. The press changed this, printing hundreds of copies in the time it once took to write one.

S. Before the printing press, every book in Europe had to be copied by hand.

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P. It was then that the villagers finally began to dig the pond the elders had talked about for years.

Q. Nobody in the village had ever seen the old well run dry.

R. But in the third summer without rain, the water sank lower every week.

S. By May, the bucket came up with nothing but mud.

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P. Then the best ideas are chosen and put in an order that builds to a strong ending.

Q. Finally, the speech is read aloud many times, and every sentence that sounds wrong is changed.

R. A good speech is not written in one sitting.

S. The speaker first writes down every idea, without worrying about order.

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P. The Arctic fox goes further: its fur is brown in summer and turns white in winter.

Q. It helps them hide against the snow from the animals that hunt them.

R. So it stays hidden all year, whatever the colour of the ground.

S. Many animals that live in cold places have white fur.

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P. In the sixteenth century, Copernicus argued that the Earth and the other planets move around the Sun.

Q. For centuries, people believed that the Earth stood still at the centre of everything.

R. His idea was rejected at first, but it later became the basis of modern astronomy.

S. The Sun, the Moon and the stars all seemed to move around it.

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P. The next monsoon was weak, yet the wells stayed full for the first time in years.

Q. Some sold their cattle; others left for the city to find work.

R. Those who stayed began to build small check dams on the streams to hold whatever rain did fall.

S. When the rains failed for the third year, the farmers of the village grew desperate.

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P. There is no sunlight there, and the water is close to freezing and under huge pressure.

Q. Scientists once thought that the deep ocean floor was lifeless.

R. These creatures live on food made by bacteria from the chemicals in the hot water.

S. Then, in 1977, explorers found hot springs on the sea floor surrounded by tube worms, crabs and clams.

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P. And above the roots, their leaves clean the air and their shade keeps the ground cool.

Q. It is easy to think of forests only as a source of wood.

R. But they do much more than that.

S. Their roots hold the soil together and stop it being washed away by rain.