English II Ordering Of Sentences II 08.10.2019

S1: The effort to clean up India’s thermal power plants running on coal has never really taken off,

S6: Originally, the compliance deadline was set for 2017, but that was missed and the plan now is to achieve the norms by 2022.

P: despite the Ministry of Environment notifying emission limits for major pollutants such as suspended particulate matter, sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury in December 2015.

Q: the Centre should have followed up the notification with a viable financial plan to help power plants acquire pollution control technologies.

R: Considering that the cumulative impact of these pollutants on the health and well-being of people is severe,

S: The economics favours such an approach for the larger plants, while for the smaller, older units, scaling down generation during the winter months when pollutants accumulate may prove beneficial.

S6: The old man replied, “Nothing special. Eighty years I’ve been chasing happiness, and it was useless. And then I decided to live without happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m happy now.”

P: But one day, when he turned eighty years old, an incredible thing happened.

Q: The whole village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and was always in a bad mood.

R: The whole village gathered together. The old man was asked what happened to him.

S: Instantly everyone started hearing the rumour that the old man was happy that day.

S6: Therefore, it is difficult to feel well in your mind if your body does not support that feeling from bottom up.

P: That’s not true.

Q: When one is unwell, the other feels unwell too.

R: We tend to consider that body problems are in the body and mental problems are in the mind.

S: There is no sharp division between mind and body.

S6: The ease with which users can air their views and moods is an empowering attribute that prompts a global clientele to sign up.

P: The exceptional popularity of this social networking site (SNS) in tricky cyber terrain is evident from the fact that the number of its active users has crossed 500 million.

Q: The key to understanding the success of Facebook is that it rode on what social media theorist Clay Shirky characterizes as the ability of the Internet to transform the manner in which information is created, shared, and distributed

R: The imagination boggles: if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world, behind China and India.

S: Two other social network sites — MySpace (300 million) and Twitter (124 million) — would occupy the fifth and eighth slots, pointing to the magnitude of the revolution in cyberspace.

S6: Unfortunately, the number of bad years is only going to worsen.

P: Over the past few decades, the south-west monsoon has become unpredictable and has reduced in intensity.

Q: In good years, when the river receives enough rainfall, there is no discord between the two States.

R: What does this mean for the Cauvery? The amount of water the river receives during the summer rains is becoming increasingly unreliable.

S: In bad years, like the one we are facing now, it turns into a gargantuan political crisis.

S6: This was until the city underwent a massive socio-economic change.

P: The transformation of the city from a barren plateau to a ‘Garden City’ is remarkable and the credit for his goes to the hard work of successive kingdoms.

Q: Bengaluru is said to have been founded by Kempe Gowda, a feudatory of the Vijaynagar empire.

R: It indeed proved to be a paradise for anyone who chose to live here.

S: In the 1970s, the city boasted a green cover of 68%. Splendid lakes, numerous parks, and lush green trees defined it.

S6: Over the last 100 years alone, the global temperature has risen by close to 2 degree. And if we do not reduce or stop these fuels and use alternate sources of energy (solar, wind and others), the global temperature will rise further.

P: This is what keeps the earth- land and seas- at a temperature range “comfortable” for us humans and the other organisms inhabiting the earth today.

Q: Some of the gases in the atmosphere, notably carbon dioxide (CO2) absorb this heat radiating from the earth’s surface and bounce it back.

R: We thus live in a large “greenhouse”.

S: What happens when the level of these greenhouse gases increases? The temperature will rise. And this rise has been due to increases in the levels of CO2 and other gases, produced upon burning carbon-rich fuels.

S6: Their paper, titled “Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection,” has appeared in the 18 November 2016 issue of the journal Science.

P: One way of approaching this is to find ways in which photosynthesis can be improved.

Q: It thus becomes important to study ways in which plant productivity can be increased.

R: As human population increases; we would need more of crops in order to cater to the global demands for food.

S: An international team of researchers, led by Dr Stephen P. Long of the University of Illinois and Dr Krishna K. Niyogi of the University of California, Berkeley, USA has focused on this problem.

S6: The government said all other options had been exhausted in making Islamabad keep its commitments since 2004 on curbing the activities of groups like the JeM

P: While the strikes followed the Pulwama attack by a couple of weeks, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale referred to the action as a “non-military pre-emptive strike”.

Q: In effect, New Delhi’s line is that the operation was an intelligence-driven counter-terror strike rather than escalatory military aggression.

R: The phrase indicates the action was based on an assessment of an imminent threat,

S: and had ensured that Pakistan’s military personnel and infrastructure were not targeted, and civilian casualties were actively avoided.

S6: This forecast frames the challenge before developing countries, India in particular.

P: More evidence of this comes from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which has released its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects.

Q: This is a sustained trend, particularly in developing countries now, as production, jobs, and markets get concentrated.

R: India, China, and Nigeria are expected to lead other countries and account for 35% of the projected growth in urban population by the mid-century.

S: Forecasting for the year 2050, the UN agency estimates that the percentage of urban residents in India would be 52.8, compared to 34 today, while Delhi would edge past Tokyo as the world’s most populous city by 2028.