10 Reading Reorder for Practice

Reading Reorder paragraphs for practice. Cheers!!

1)

1. As manufacturing continues to shrink in an economy, overall growth will increasingly depend on boosting productivity in services.

2. Policy should therefore focus on removing obstacles (such as trade barriers and regulation), to such productivity growth, and creating a labor market in which workers can move freely from factory employment to services.

3. Protection and subsidies push just the wrong way.

4. But those who would tackle this by subsidies or trade barriers are missing the point.

5. De-industrialization causes problems in economies unable to absorb the workers released by manufacturing

2)

1. Although there is not yet a cure for the illness, there may be hope for a cure with a protein called nerve growth factor.

 2. Alzheimer’s disease impairs a person’s ability to recall memories, both distant memories and memories as recent as a few hours before.

 3. Using a group of rats with impaired memory, the scientists gave half of the rats doses of nerve growth factor while giving the other half a blood protein as a placebo, thus creating a control group.

 4. Based on this relationship, scientists from the University of Landon in Sweden and the University of California at San Diego designed an experiment to test whether doses of nerve growth factor could reverse the effects of memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s.

 5. The protein is produced by nerve cells in the same region of the brain where Alzheimer’s occurs

  

3)

 1. The Great Chain of Being did not correspond with sense experience.

 2. Here the work of Galileo is centrally important.

 3. His observations of the skies with a telescope led him to conclude that the heavens could not be the perfectly ordered realm of the divine, for there were irregularities and imperfections (like comets, sun spots, and the irregular surface of the moon).

 4. The really decisive challenge came from those who, in defense of Copernicuss suggestion, insisted that the very nature of science must change, that it must work from a different purpose and by different methods.

4)

 1 Established companies that prosper are those that don’t allow their success to lull them to sleep.

 2 Nothing has changed the fundamental economics of business.

 3 It’s still good to be big.

 4 It’s still good to have a lot of capital.

 5 The problem is when you let your bigness make you slow, or when you let your experience lead you to believe your way is the best way.

5)

1. We can never leave off wondering how that which has ever been should cease to be.

 2. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.

 3. Nothing else, indeed, seems to be of any consequence; and we become misers in this sense.

 4. We try arrest its few last tottering steps, and to make it linger on the brink of the grave.

  

6)

 1 A perfect voice speaks so directly to the soul of the hearer that all appearance of artfully prepared effect is absent.

 2 Every tone sung by a consummate vocal artist seems to be poured forth freely and spontaneously.

 3 There is no evidence of calculation, of carefully directed effort, of attention to the workings of the voice, in the tones of a perfect singer.

 4 Yet if the accepted idea of Voice Culture is correct, this semblance of spontaneity in the use of the voice can result only from careful and incessant attention to mechanical rules.

 5 In no other form of expression do art and nature seem so closely identified as in the art of singing

 7)

 1. Some people think that in this cooperative endeavour, the intelligent students stand to lose since they cannot make the best of their talents, but this seems to be a vague fear.

 2. It is only when a child works within a group that his qualities of leadership will manifest themselves.

 3. His character will only be shaped by coming into contact with others and by working with them.

 4. An important feature of modern education is that it encourages cooperation rather than competition.

 5. In fact, personality development can only take place by working in co-operation with others and not in isolation.

  

8)

1 It is evident, therefore, that the ants of each community all recognize one another, which is very remarkable.

 2 However, they are in hostility not only with most other insects, including ants of different species, but even with those of the same species if belonging to different communities.

 3 I have over and over again introduced ants from one of my nests into another nest of the same species; and they were invariably attacked, seized by a leg or an antenna, and dragged out.

 4 The communities of ants are sometimes very large, numbering even up to 500, 000 individuals.

 5 And it is a lesson to us that no one has ever yet seen a quarrel between any two ants belonging to the same community.

9)

1.Post offices and Public sector banks could supplement micro-credit institutions in this regard.

2. They are trusted institutions, and have already built up credit and savings channels for the poor.

3. In a recent paper, Wouter Van Ginneken of the International Labor Organization has argued that micro-finance institutions could play an important role in providing social security.

4. To overcome this weakness, Ginneken suggests that micro-credit organizations should outsource the insurance part of their business.

5. But one problem is that most micro-credit institutions are small and lack expertise in the insurance business.

  

10)

 1. But it was a chance stumbling upon a run-down, yet functional, laboratory in his late grandfather’s home that solidified the young man’s enthusiasm for chemistry.

 2. His talent and devotion to the subject were perceived by his teacher.

 3. As a student at the City of London School, Perkin became immersed in the study of chemistry.

 4. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the science, arts, photography and engineering.

 5. William Henry Perkin was born in London, Englan