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Almost every full moon night, the officials in Andaman and Nicobar Islands take part in a cautious ritual. The tribesmen watch from a safe distance as the officials ##QUESTION_1## the island in a boat ##QUESTION_2## gifts for them. The islanders come ##QUESTION_3## hesitantly only after the officials ##QUESTION_4## dumped the coconuts brought ##QUESTION_5## them onto the beach and begin ##QUESTION_6## away from their small island. On some nights the tribals even ##QUESTION_7## up enough courage to swim upto a few feet ##QUESTION_8## from the boat. The officials maintain that they do ##QUESTION_9## want to interfere with the way of life of the tribals. The islanders ##QUESTION_10## heavily on the mainland for most goods.

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Science means knowledge, but not all knowledge is science. I know from my own eyesight that our dog Chippy likes papaya; I know from a book that Akbar was the ##QUESTION_1## of Babar, and ##QUESTION_2## in 1605; and I know ##QUESTION_3## the radio that India did not do well in the ##QUESTION_4## Test matches. We can call these ##QUESTION_5## of knowledge, ##QUESTION_6##, but they are not science. Science ##QUESTION_7## with facts, but not with facts which have ##QUESTION_8## to do with each other, like the facts about our dog, cricket and the Moghul ruler; those facts are not related ##QUESTION_9## , and so have nothing ##QUESTION_10## with science. Science starts with observation.

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When we visited the volcano it was in a state of ##QUESTION_1## . We stood near tip of the ##QUESTION_2## on an irregular plane. It was heaped ##QUESTION_3## stones and cinders and ##QUESTION_4## rocks which had been regularly ##QUESTION_5## out from the volcano. During the volcanic eruption, large quantities of rocks and stones were hurled out from the summit in terrible ##QUESTION_6## . From the summit volumes ##QUESTION_7## smoke and fountains of liquid fire ##QUESTION_8## forth continuously. The smoke now white, now impenetrably black was ##QUESTION_9## by a deep fiery roar. Stones ##QUESTION_10## down and the molten lava moved on with a horrible sound.

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Bollywood is the informal term ##QUESTION_1## used for the Hindi-language film industry ##QUESTION_2## in Mumbai, India. The term is ##QUESTION_3## incorrectly used to refer to the ##QUESTION_4## of Indian cinema; it is only a ##QUESTION_5## of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is the ##QUESTION_6## film producer in India and one of the largest ##QUESTION_7## of film production in the ##QUESTION_8##. The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the ##QUESTION_9## name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the ##QUESTION_10## of the American film industry.

Direction: Women have (16) made (17) in the corporate workplace but certainly not as much as they had (18) We have new laws, rules and (19) relating to women in the workplace, but what we have not changed much is the male (20) Women have fallen short in their goals because we (21) the potency of the male need to (22) their power. We can abide (23) by the laws and rules we create in order to (24) women an equal opportunity in the corporate workplace and still not (25) the problems that afflicted and eventually capsized the women’s raft.