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1. 1)FIRST SAMPLE
   

(By Sentence)

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

      There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself.

This so grieved the father that he died;

yet, in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways.

One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger asked him his age, and if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor.

"I am, sir," replied Aladdin;

"but he died a long while ago."

On this the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and knew you from your likeness to my brother.

Go to your mother and tell her I am coming."

Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly found uncle.

"Indeed, child," she said, "your father had a brother, but I always thought he was dead."

However, she prepared supper, and bade Aladdin seek his uncle, who came laden with wine and fruit.

He fell down and kissed the place where Mustapha used to sit, bidding Aladdin's mother not to be surprised at not having seen him before, as he had been forty years out of the country.

He then turned to Aladdin, and asked him his trade, at which the boy hung his head, while his mother burst into tears.

On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shop for him and stock it with merchandise.

Next day he bought Aladdin a fine suit of clothes and took him all over the city, showing him the sights, and brought him home at nightfall to his mother, who was overjoyed to see her son so fine.

      Next day the magician led Aladdin into some beautiful gardens a long way outside the city gates.

They sat down by a fountain and the magician pulled a cake from his girdle, which he divided between them.

Then they journeyed onwards till they almost reached the mountains.

Aladdin was so tired that he begged to go back, but the magician beguiled him with pleasant stories and lead him on in spite of himself.

At last they came to two mountains divided by a narrow valley.

"We will go no farther," said his uncle.

"I will show you something wonderful;

only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire."

When it was lit the magician threw on it a powder he had about him, at the same time saying some magical words.

The earth trembled a little in front of them, disclosing a square flat stone with a brass ring in the middle to raise it by.

Aladdin tried to run away, but the magician caught him and gave him a blow that knocked him down.

"What have I done, uncle?" he said piteously;

whereupon the magician said more kindly: "Fear nothing, but obey me.

Beneath this stone lies a treasure which is to be yours, and no one else may touch it, so you must do exactly as I tell you."

At the word treasure Aladdin forgot his fears, and grasped the ring as he was told, saying the names of his father and grandfather.

The stone came up quite easily, and some steps appeared.

"Go down," said the magician;

"at the foot of those steps you will find an open door leading into three large halls.

Tuck up your gown and go through them without touching anything, or you will die instantly.

These halls lead into a garden of fine fruit trees.

Walk on till you come to niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp.

Pour out the oil it contains, and bring it me."

He drew a ring from his finger and gave it to Aladdin, bidding him prosper.

(By Punctuation Interval)

        Aladdin found everything as the magician had said,

gathered some fruit off the trees,

and,

having got the lamp,

arrived at the mouth of the cave.

The magician cried out in a great hurry:

"Make haste and give me the lamp."

This Aladdin refused to do until he was out of the cave.

The magician flew into a terrible passion,

and throwing some more powder on to the fire,

he said something,

and the stone rolled back into its place.

(By Phrase)

Aladdin

and the Wonderful Lamp

There once lived a poor tailor,

who had a son called Aladdin,

a careless,

idle boy

who would do nothing

but play all day long

in the streets

with little idle boys

like himself.

This

so grieved the father

that he died;

yet,

in spite

of his mother's tears

and prayers,

Aladdin did not mend his ways.

One day,

when he was playing

in the streets as usual,

a stranger asked him his age,

and

if he was not the son

of Mustapha the tailor.

"I am,

sir,"

replied Aladdin;

"but he died a long while ago.”

On this the stranger,

who was a famous African magician,

fell

on his neck

and kissed him saying:

"I am your uncle,

and knew you

from your likeness

to my brother.

Go

to your mother

and tell her I am coming.”

Aladdin ran home

and told his mother

of his newly found uncle.

"Indeed,

child,"

she said,

"your father had a brother,

but I always thought he was dead.”

However,

she prepared supper,

and bade Aladdin seek his uncle,

who came laden

with wine

and fruit.

He fell down

and kissed the place

where Mustapha used

to sit,

bidding Aladdin's mother not

to be surprised

at not having seen him before,

as he had been forty years out

of the country.

He then turned

to Aladdin,

and asked him his trade,

at

which the boy hung his head,

while his mother burst

into tears.

On learning

that Aladdin was idle

and would learn no trade,

he offered

to take a shop

for him

and stock it

with merchandise.

Next day he bought Aladdin a fine suit

of clothes

and took him all

over the city,

showing him the sights,

and brought him home

at nightfall

to his mother,

who was overjoyed

to see her son

so fine.

Next day the magician led Aladdin

into some beautiful gardens a long way outside the city gates.

They sat down

by a fountain

and the magician pulled a cake

from his girdle,

which he divided

between them.

Then they journeyed onwards till they

almost reached the mountains.

Aladdin was

so tired

that he begged

to go back,

but the magician beguiled him

with pleasant stories

and lead him

on

in spite

of himself.

At last they came

to two mountains divided

by a narrow valley.

"We will go no farther,"

said his uncle.

"I will show you something wonderful;

only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire.”

When it was lit the magician threw

on it a powder he had

about him,

at the same time saying some magical words.

The earth trembled a little

in front

of them,

disclosing a square flat stone

with a brass ring

in the middle

to raise it by.

Aladdin tried

to run away,

but the magician caught him

and gave him a blow

that knocked him down.

"What have I done,

uncle?"

he said piteously;

whereupon the magician said more kindly:

"Fear nothing,

but obey me.

Beneath this stone lies a treasure

which is

to be yours,

and no one else may touch it,

so you must

do exactly as I tell you.”

At the word treasure Aladdin forgot his fears,

and grasped the ring as he was told,

saying the names

of his father

and grandfather.

The stone came up quite easily,

and some steps appeared.

"Go down,"

said the magician;

"at the foot

of those steps you will find an open door leading

into three large halls.

Tuck up your gown

and go

through them

without touching anything,

or you will die instantly.

These halls lead

into a garden

of fine fruit trees.

Walk

on till you come

to niche

in a terrace

where stands a lighted lamp.

Pour out the oil it contains,

and bring it me.”

He drew a ring

from his finger

and gave it

to Aladdin,

bidding him prosper.

Aladdin found everything as the magician had said,

gathered some fruit off the trees,

and,

having got the lamp,

arrived

at the mouth

of the cave.

The magician cried out

in a great hurry:

"Make haste

and give me the lamp.”

This Aladdin refused

to do

until he was out

of the cave.

The magician flew

into a terrible passion,

and throwing some more powder on

to the fire,

he said something,

and the stone rolled back

into its place.

The man left the country,

which plainly showed

that he was no uncle

of Aladdin's

but a cunning magician,

who had read

in his magic books

of a wonderful lamp,

which would make him the most powerful man

in the world.

Though he alone knew where

to find it,

he could only receive it

from the hand

of another.

He had picked out the foolish Aladdin

for this purpose,

intending

to get the lamp

and kill him afterwards.

For two days Aladdin remained

in the dark,

crying

and lamenting.

At last he clasped his hands

in prayer,

and in

so doing rubbed the ring,

which the magician had forgotten

to take

from him.

Immediately an enormous

and frightful genie rose out

of the earth,

saying:

"What wouldst thou

with me?

I am the Slave

of the Ring,

and will obey thee

in all things.”

Aladdin fearlessly replied,

"Deliver me

from this place!"

whereupon the earth opened,

and he found himself outside.

As soon as his eyes could bear the light he went home,

but fainted

on the threshold.

When he came

to himself he told his mother

what had passed,

and showed her the lamp

and the fruits he had gathered

in the garden,

which were

in reality precious stones.

He then asked

for some food.

"Alas!

child,"

she said,

"I have nothing

in the house,

but I have spun a little cotton

and will go sell it.”

Aladdin bade her keep her cotton,

for he would sell the lamp instead.

As it was very dirty,

she began

to rub it,

that it might fetch a higher price.

Instantly a hideous genie appeared,

and asked

what she would have.

She fainted away,

but Aladdin,

snatching the lamp,

said boldly:

"Fetch me something

to eat!"

The genie returned

with a silver bowl,

twelve silver plates containing rich meats,

two silver cups,

and two bottles

of wine.

Aladdin's mother,

when she came

to herself,

said:

"Whence comes this splendid feast?"

"Ask not,

but eat,"

replied Aladdin.

So they sat

at breakfast till it was dinner-time,

and Aladdin told his mother

about the lamp.

She begged him

to sell it,

and have nothing

to do

with devils.

"No,"

said Aladdin,

"since chance hath made us aware

of its virtues,

we will use it,

and the ring likewise,

which I shall always wear

on my finger.”

When they had eaten all the genie had brought,

Aladdin sold one

of the silver plates,

and so

on

until none were left.

He then had recourse

to the genie,

who gave him another set

of plates,

and thus they lived many years.

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2) SECOND SAMPLE

A Few SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS FROM A COLLEGE TEXTBOOK: ON MATERNITY NURSING

    EVOLUTION OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES

        Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a group of diverse medical and healthcare systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [NCCAM], 2008).

A complementary therapy may be defined as any procedure or product that is used together with conventional medical treatment.

For example, a childbearing woman might request aromatherapy to help her cope with the discomfort she anticipates following a scheduled cesarean birth.

Although complementary therapies were entirely absent from clinics and hospitals until the last few decades, they are now often used in conjunction with surgery, pharmaceuticals, and other conventional treatments for a variety of injuries and illnesses.

They are also being more and more frequently integrated with conventional perinatal care.

        In contrast, an alternative therapy is used in place of conventional medicine (NCCAM, 2008).

For example, a woman with a postterm pregnancy may refuse medication to induce labor, and instead ingest an herb she believes will stimulate contractions.

Because alternative therapies are used in place of medically prescribed treatments, people may be reluctant to discuss them with a conventional physician or registered nurse.

        The very terms complementary and alternative suggest the contemporary view that herbs, homeopathy, chiropractic, and other such healing techniques are peripheral to conventional Western medicine, which is the "primary" treatment.

How did we come to hold this view? And what has contributed to the resurgence in complementary and alternative therapies in the last few decades?

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3) THIRD SAMPLE

BEGINNING OF A CLASSIC NOVEL:

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

BY STEPHEN CRANE

    The Red Badge of Courage

        By Stephen Crane

    The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares.

A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.

    Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt.

He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.

He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters.

He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.

    "We're goin' t' move t'morrah--sure," he said pompously to a group in the company street.

"We're goin' 'way up the river, cut across, an' come around in behint 'em."

    To his attentive audience he drew a loud and elaborate plan of a very brilliant campaign.

When he had finished, the blue-clothed men scattered into small arguing groups between the rows of squat brown huts.

A negro teamster who had been dancing upon a cracker box with the hilarious encouragement of twoscore soldiers was deserted.

He sat mournfully down.

Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.

    "It's a lie! that's all it is--a thunderin' lie!" said another private loudly.

His smooth face was flushed, and his hands were thrust sulkily into his trouser's pockets.

He took the matter as an affront to him.

"I don't believe the derned old army's ever going to move.

We're set.

I've got ready to move eight times in the last two weeks, and we ain't moved yet."

    The tall soldier felt called upon to defend the truth of a rumor he himself had introduced.

He and the loud one came near to fighting over it.

    A corporal began to swear before the assemblage.

He had just put a costly board floor in his house, he said.

During the early spring he had refrained from adding extensively to the comfort of his environment because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment.

Of late, however, he had been impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.

    Many of the men engaged in a spirited debate.

One outlined in a peculiarly lucid manner all the plans of the commanding general.

He was opposed by men who advocated that there were other plans of campaign.

They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention.

Meanwhile, the soldier who had fetched the rumor bustled about with much importance.

He was continually assailed by questions.

    "What's up, Jim?"

    "Th'army's goin' t' move."

    "Ah, what yeh talkin' about? How yeh know it is?"

    "Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.

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4) FOURTH SAMPLE

HISTORY: SPEECH:

    Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

    March 4, 1865

    Fellow countrymen:  At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first.

Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper.

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself;

and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all.

With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

    On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.

All dreaded it-- all sought to avert it.

While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-- seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.

Both parties deprecated war;

but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive;

and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

And the war came.

    One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.

These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war;

while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

    Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.

Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;

and each invokes his aid against the other.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;

but let us judge not, that we be not judged.

The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

    The Almighty has his own purposes.

"Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come;

but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." 

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?

Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

    With malice toward none;

with charity for all;

with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;

to bind up the nation's wounds;

to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

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5) Fifth Sample:

Legal Document:

Text of the 12th Amendment

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves;

they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;

—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;

—The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed;

and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote;

a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President—The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President;

a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

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