English II Ordering Of Sentences Quiz II 02.12.2019

S1) Moscow has substantial leverage in the negotiations: Cash from Russia and Rosneft has been crucial in helping the financially strapped government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro avoid a sovereign debt default or a political coup.
P. On at least two occasions, the Venezuelan government has used Russian cash to avoid imminent defaults on payments to bondholders, a high-level PDVSA official told Reuters.
Q. Much of it ends up at refineries in the United States – despite U.S. sanctions against Russia – because it is sold through intermediaries such as oil trading firms, according to internal PDVSA trade reports seen by Reuters and a source at the firm.
R. Rosneft has also positioned itself as a middleman in sales of Venezuelan oil to customers worldwide.
S. Rosneft delivered Venezuela’s state-owned firm more than $1 billion in April alone in exchange for a promise of oil shipments later.
S6) PDVSA and the government of Venezuela did not respond to requests for comment.

S1. The hackers behind HBO's recent data breach have leaked an email in which the U.S. cable channel offered them $250,000 as a "bounty payment," Hollywood trade paper Variety reported on Thursday.
S6. The hack has come at a sensitive time for HBO, whose parent Time Warner is awaiting regulatory approval to sell itself to AT&T Inc in an $85.4 billion deal announced in October.
P. The Guardian and other publications reported earlier this week that hackers had posted some stolen HBO files online, demanding a bitcoin ransom to prevent additional releases.
Q. The email was worded in a way that would allow HBO to stall for time while it assessed the situation, Variety reported, citing a source close to HBO's investigation.
R. The message from HBO, the Time Warner Inc cable unit that broadcasts "Game of Thrones," offers the money as part of a program in which "white-hat professionals" are rewarded for identifying cybersecurity flaws, the Variety report said.
S. HBO also requested the hackers to extend a ransom payment deadline by one week, Variety said.

S1) U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new threat to North Korea on Friday, saying American weapons were "locked and loaded" as Pyongyang accused him of driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.
P. Trump, who is at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort on a working vacation, described American military readiness in stark terms.
Q. "Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as 'the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK,'" KCNA said.
R. "Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely," he wrote on Twitter.
S. Trump kept up the war of words on Twitter shortly after the North Korean state news agency, KCNA, put out a statement blaming him for the escalated tensions
S6) The U.S. president maintained pressure on the North a day after saying his earlier threat to unleash "fire and fury" on Pyongyang if it launched an attack may not have been tough enough.

S1. Most of the universities in the country are now facing financial crisis.
P. Cost benefit yardstick thus should not be applied in the case of universities.
Q. The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue for long.
R. Universities cannot be equated with commercial enterprises.
S. Proper development of universities and colleges must be ensured.
S6. The Government should realise this before it is too late.

S1) The study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their Language.
P. But they succeed in playing games of chess.
Q. Some patients, for example fail to find the names of objects presented to them.
R. They can even use the concepts needed for chess playing. though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language.
S. They even find it difficult to interpret long written notices.
S6) How they manage to do this we do not know.

S1) Much of our adult behavior and our attitudes are determined by our upbringing.
P. But the process does not stop here.
Q. In particular by the effects of that small part of society which is our family.
R. As we grow we are constantly and increasingly affected by new forces such as the social pressure of our friends and the largest world of society.
S. The family and our early life have profound effect on our later life.
S6) Psychologists have studied these forces in depth.

S1) Technology is meant for bringing comfort to the body and spirituality brings comfort to the mind.
P. But in India that never happened, religion has always encouraged Science.
Q. Scientists were persecuted.
R. Here religion and Philosophy were never isolated practices.
S. In the West, religion was always opposed to Science.
S6) They intertwined with life, in music, art, drama, dance, painting and sculpture.

S1. When you leave your house, concentrate your mind on a subject.
P. Bring the mind back by the scruff of the neck.
Q. You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.
R. Before you have reached the station you will have brought it back about 40 times.
S. You will not have gone ten yards before your mind has skipped away under your very eyes and is playing round the corner with another subject.
S6. It is idle to pretend that your mind is incapable of concentration.

S1. The life of the honeybee colony centres around the activities of its single queen.
P. Fertilization of these eggs’ takes place before they are deposited in the cells.
Q. When the eggs hatch into larvae, they are looked after and fed by the worker bees.
R. During the summer months, she spends most of her time laying eggs in the wax cells of her honey comb.
S. The honeybee does this by releasing sperm from her storage sacs which were filled at the time of her mating of flights.
S6. A new worker bee emerges three weeks after the egg was laid.

S1. When a boy grows into a young man, he finds himself in a new and strange world.
P. The relationship remains, but its nature changes.
Q. The emotional ties that he had with them are now loosened.
R. The old pattern of his life in which his parents were the nucleus around-which his life revolved now undergoes a change.
S. He finds in himself an emotional void which he must somehow fill.
S6. At this stage of life he is like a body without a soul or a flower without fragrance.