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20. Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by which one shape or form changes into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity. Books are turned into plays and films all the time, plays are turned into movies and also sometimes into musicals, movies are turned into Broadway shows and even, by the ugly method known as novelisation, into books as well. We live in a world of such transformations and metamorphoses. ________________________
(1) Ricky Gervais turns into Steve Carell, just as, long ago, the British working-class racist Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part turned into the American blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker in All In the Family.
(2) British TV comedy series are turned into American TV comedy series, so that The Office becomes a different The Office.
(3) British reality programmes are adapted to suit American audiences as well; Pop Idol becomes American Idol when it crosses the Atlantic.
(4) Strictly, Come Dancing becomes Dancing With the Stars - a programme which, it may interest you to know, invited me to appear on it last season, an invitation I declined.
(5) Good movies - Lolita, The Pink Panther - are remade as bad movies; bad movies - The Incredible Hulk, Deep Throat - are remade as even worse movies.
21. The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yet the book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is: why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for are the people you are writing about. But the Booker undoubtedly an important literary prize has become so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about the Booker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________
(1) In our country the obsession with labels is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent desire for recognition from the so-called white- elite.
(2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or America as its centre.
(3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize over the ones that receive domestic honours.
(4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by the people of a culture richer than that of the British.
(5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion.
22. It might not sound like a recipe for success but this is the most important piece of theatre happening anywhere in the country. Some 40 years ago, director Augusto Boal began experimenting with invisible theatre rehearsing and performing semi-improvised pieces in public spaces to the unsuspecting public. Meanwhile in the bohemian lofts of New York City, a new generation of visionaries were embedding their art ever further into the everyday. Lurking in the corner of a diner, Vito Acconci sat quietly rubbing his arm to produce a sore, while Allan Kaprow created instructions for almost unseen activities to be carried out on the streets of the city. ____________________________________
(1) Such theatre is not as successful as that which happens in an auditorium.
(2) Even audiences were transformed, no longer limited to those who knew they were an audience.
(3) In this way, theatre broke free of the auditorium, art tore itself from the gallery and the museum
(4) Theatre veterans are least bothered about praise or criticism.
(5) Experimental theatre has been doing the rounds for quite some time now.
23. Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middleclass landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality, wealth is redistributed so that the members of the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communism also requires that all means of production be controlled by the state. ______________________
(1) In other words, private business owners are very few and have to share profits with the state.
(2) In other words, the state redistributes wealth and creates equality among the people.
(3) In other words, no one can own his or her own business or produce his or her own goods because the state owns everything.
(4) In other words, communism is against capitalism.
(5) In other words, communism reeks of corruption and is next to dictatorship in suppressing the wealthy.
24. There is much to commend in this novel, a witty parable of Indias changing society, yet there is much to ponder. The scales have fallen from the eyes of some Indian writers, many either living abroad, or educated there like Adiga. The home country is invariably presented as a place of brutal injustice and sordid corruption, one in which the poor are always dispossessed and victimised by their age-old enemies, the rich. Characters at the colourful extremities of society are Dickensian grotesques, Phiz sketches, adrift in a country that is lurching rapidly towards bland middle-class normality. ___________________.
(1) My hunch is this is fundamentally an outsiders view and a superficial one.
(2) There are so many alternative Indias, uncontacted and unheard which Adiga can never hope to explore.
(3) Adiga is a genius of this age who has written a pathbreaking book.
(4) Presenting the home country as a poverty-stricken place has become a means of getting cheap popularity.
(5) We are talking about a country which for ages has served as a spiritual guide for the world
25 . The Polar Basin is not a flat, unbroken plain of ice. As new ice forms below the old, it heaves upward, cracking the surface into a tangle of ice floes. Driven by wind and tide, these floes are forever churning and grinding, now freezing together, again cracking apart._____
A)On occasion, a floe may drift away from this melee.
B)This renders the area truly uninhabitable.
C)They form the polar ice pack, a jigsaw puzzle of pinnacles, caverns and precipices.
D)Thunderous rumbles are heard when this happens.
Happy CATing 
P.S- Jagoo Rey
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