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A. Fortunately, global wealth and technology allow us to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
B. It does not necessarily mean that volcanoes and quakes are getting worse but rather that there are more of us living in areas where we might be affected by a disaster, and we have more to lose.
C. As global populations have grown and people have crowded into risk zones like earthquake areas and flood plains the toll of natural disasters has grown as well.
D. According to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, the number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the 1980s.
E. The Red Cross estimates that the economic damage from disasters rose fivefold, to $629 billion, from 1985 to 2005.
(a) CDBEA (b) BCDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CADEB
2. A. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
B. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
C. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
D. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.
E. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.
(a) BDCEA (b) CBDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CEABD
3. A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
(a) EBDAC (b) CEDBA (c) DBAEC (d) CEBDA