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PRACTICE PASSAGE - X (contd) Practising 11._ art of story-telling can be very 12.__ too. It will help you to 13._ clearly and logically, to sort out 14._ ideas to express yourself clearly and 15._, to gain and hold the attention 16._ others. It will help you to 17._ off shyness and self-consciousness, and give 18.__ that feeling of freedom 19._ is so important to 20._ in life.

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - X We all like listening to 1._ and the person who is good 2.__ telling stories will always be a 3._ member of any company. The art 4._ good story-telling covers much more than 5._ up fabulous adventures; it includes telling 6._ the doings of living people or 7._ men and women of the past, 8.__ your own travels and adventures and 9._, about the books you have read 10._ the films you have seen.

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - IX Galileo used mathematical calculation as well as observation of nature and was the first astronomer to use a telescope. With an instrument of his own 1._ Galileo observed Jupiter and four of 2.__ moons, the phases of Venus and the spots on the sun. His 3._ and calculations confirmed that Copernicus and Kepler were right. He saw 4._ his own eyes and made other people 5._ too that the earth was not the fixed center of 6._ universe as Ptolemy had said. Galileo 7._ made some important discoveries in mechanics. He did not 8.__ drop cannon balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa 9._ that all bodies fall at the 10._ speed, but he did roll balls 11.__ a slope to show that the 12.__ a body falls is proportionate 13._ the square of the time it takes to fall. Galileo also noticed the regular 14._ of the lamps in Pisa Cathedral; 15._ gave him the idea of the pendulum, a device that enabled him to make the clock a scientific instrument for the first time.

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - VIII "What 1._ happen to them after us?" This most 2.__ question continually torments the parents of these 3._ children. So they are mainly interested in 4._ some kind of vocational training for them. 5._ special schools for such children, spread all 6._ the world, lay emphasis on vocational training. 7._ they are taught to make paper bags, 8.__ wall hangings etc. This, of course, is quite 9._ and admirable. But what about play and 10._ ?

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - VII (contd) Our living is 10._ by a series of automatic 11.__ from morning till night. Anything 12.__ do outside that common range of 13._ however, has to be 14._ by some measure of thinking. 15._ more action and thought are 16.__ and integrated, the more effective 17._ become and the happier you 18._ there will then be no 19.__ between a wish to do something and 20.____ to act.

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - VII I was engaged in many activities and I wanted a proper reconciliation between my activity and thought. Thought without 1._ is undeveloped thought. Action without 2.__ is folly. Of course we 3._ act on some impulse or 4._ urge. If suddenly you throw 5._ brick at me and my 6._ goes up in front to 7._ myself, it is an automatic, 8.__ action and not a result 9.___ deliberate thought.

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PRACTICE PASSAGE - VI Ernest Hemingway was 1._ of America’s most beloved authors. He was born in 1898. 2._ World war I he served 3._ a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy, 4._ later served in the Italian infantry. Hemingway 5._ badly wounded in 1918. Hemingway’s wartime experience 6._ a considerable influence 7._ his writing. In fact 8._ of his novels focus on the need for physical and psychological strength to 9._ difficulty and often violence. He was quite disillusioned 10._ the war.