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101.

At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions "an extraordinary human disaster". What does he mean by this? What is the glorious ....human achievement” he speaks of at the end?

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Solution :At the beginning of his speech, MANDELA CALLS the apartheid regime based on racial discrimination as an extraordinary human disaster.” The people were deprived of JUSTICE, peace and human dignity. Now the NEW REPUBLIC ensures social justice, equality and human dignity. Never will South Africa see any exploitation of men by men and racial discrimination.
Discussion
102.

1. It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have developedsince the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines. There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning. Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of years even between the existence of the micro life and the huge dinosaurwho owned the world and ruled over it.2. But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for which actually, everything in the worldwas mean. Nature bestowed man with a developed brain that it did not develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo Sapien. It was only man who could think and plan about his existence and welfare, polluting in the process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are meant for him.3. The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds palatialbuildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other burrow dwellers.They are all meant to die for his facilities. 4. Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the animals aremeant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for its horns, a large number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He killed musk deer to have the musk from its muskpod. He kills a large number of animals for his food. His number is increasing in such away that he will have no fear, ever of animals, owning the world again. 5. Man justifies his killing of animals by a strange theory. “One living being is the food of anotherliving creature". Who will remind him of the doomsday after which the animal world would claim back from man their due right and man may then become “meant” for animals!। On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer thequestions:All theories of man's development are based on:

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his self-importance
his HARD LABOUR
his PERSEVERANCE
his endeavour

Solution :his self-importance
Discussion
103.

1. It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have developedsince the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines. There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning. Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of years even between the existence of the micro life and the huge dinosaurwho owned the world and ruled over it.2. But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for which actually, everything in the worldwas mean. Nature bestowed man with a developed brain that it did not develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo Sapien. It was only man who could think and plan about his existence and welfare, polluting in the process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are meant for him.3. The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds palatialbuildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other burrow dwellers.They are all meant to die for his facilities. 4. Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the animals aremeant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for its horns, a large number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He killed musk deer to have the musk from its muskpod. He kills a large number of animals for his food. His number is increasing in such away that he will have no fear, ever of animals, owning the world again. 5. Man justifies his killing of animals by a strange theory. “One living being is the food of anotherliving creature". Who will remind him of the doomsday after which the animal world would claim back from man their due right and man may then become “meant” for animals!। On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer thequestions:Man didn't own the world:

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in the BEGINNING
in the ICE AGE
in the IRON age
in the stone age

Solution : in the beginning
Discussion
104.

1. It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have developedsince the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines. There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning. Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of years even between the existence of the micro life and the huge dinosaurwho owned the world and ruled over it.2. But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for which actually, everything in the worldwas mean. Nature bestowed man with a developed brain that it did not develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo Sapien. It was only man who could think and plan about his existence and welfare, polluting in the process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are meant for him.3. The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds palatialbuildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other burrow dwellers.They are all meant to die for his facilities. 4. Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the animals aremeant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for its horns, a large number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He killed musk deer to have the musk from its muskpod. He kills a large number of animals for his food. His number is increasing in such away that he will have no fear, ever of animals, owning the world again. 5. Man justifies his killing of animals by a strange theory. “One living being is the food of anotherliving creature". Who will remind him of the doomsday after which the animal world would claim back from man their due right and man may then become “meant” for animals!। On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer thequestions: All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant:

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for ANIMALS and MAN
for man
for all LIVING creatures
for woman

Solution : for man
Discussion
105.

1. It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have developedsince the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines. There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning. Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of years even between the existence of the micro life and the huge dinosaurwho owned the world and ruled over it.2. But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for which actually, everything in the worldwas mean. Nature bestowed man with a developed brain that it did not develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo Sapien. It was only man who could think and plan about his existence and welfare, polluting in the process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are meant for him.3. The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds palatialbuildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other burrow dwellers.They are all meant to die for his facilities. 4. Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the animals aremeant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for its horns, a large number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He killed musk deer to have the musk from its muskpod. He kills a large number of animals for his food. His number is increasing in such away that he will have no fear, ever of animals, owning the world again. 5. Man justifies his killing of animals by a strange theory. “One living being is the food of anotherliving creature". Who will remind him of the doomsday after which the animal world would claim back from man their due right and man may then become “meant” for animals!। On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer thequestions: The most suitable heading of the whole passage:

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Man's self IMPORTANCE
Man's selfishness
Man's CRUELTY to ANIMALS
Killing of animals

SOLUTION :Man.s cruelty to animals
Discussion
106.

1. It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have developedsince the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines. There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning. Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of years even between the existence of the micro life and the huge dinosaurwho owned the world and ruled over it.2. But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for which actually, everything in the worldwas mean. Nature bestowed man with a developed brain that it did not develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo Sapien. It was only man who could think and plan about his existence and welfare, polluting in the process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are meant for him.3. The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds palatialbuildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other burrow dwellers.They are all meant to die for his facilities. 4. Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the animals aremeant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for its horns, a large number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He killed musk deer to have the musk from its muskpod. He kills a large number of animals for his food. His number is increasing in such away that he will have no fear, ever of animals, owning the world again. 5. Man justifies his killing of animals by a strange theory. “One living being is the food of anotherliving creature". Who will remind him of the doomsday after which the animal world would claim back from man their due right and man may then become “meant” for animals!। On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer thequestions: Man developed to the form we find him now:

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in the very BEGINNING
after a few HUNDRED YEARS
after a very LONG TIME
just at his origin.

Solution : after a very long time
Discussion
107.

Accidents in big cities is a common phenomenon. Unfortunately, hardly anyone comes to the rescue of road victims because of fear of harassment by the police. Now that the Supreme Court has issued guidelines that people who take road victims to a hospital will not be questioned or detained, there is no reason why bystanders/passersby should hesitate to help road victims and thus discharge their duty as responsible citizens. Write a letter to the Chief Traffic Police Officer, Kanpur requesting him/her to make people aware of Supreme Court guidelines and urge them to help people in distress. You are Shom/Shobha, 24, Raj Nagar, Kanpur.

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Solution :24, Raj NAGAR
Kanpur
10 June 20XX
The Chief Traffic Police Officer
Civil Lines
Kanpur
Sub: Supreme Court.s guidelines for road victims
Sir
I wish to BRING to your notice how people are still not aware of the latest Supreme Court.s guidelines for road victims.
It is a common sight to see road accident victims not getting prompt help by the passersby for fear of getting entangled in legal proceedings, which is painstaking and frustrating.
Now the Supreme Court has brought some relief to the accident victims by issuing certain specific guidelines wherein the laws have been relaxed. Hence, now whosoever COMES forward to assist a road victim by taking him to the nearest MEDICAL centre or hospital for urgent medical TREATMENT, will not be questioned or detained. My sincere appeal to all is that in such situations one should come forward without any fear, and as a responsible citizen, help the road victims who need your mercy. Public awareness campaign in this regard by the local police is the need of the hour.
Thanking You
Yours sincerely
Shom/Shobha
Discussion
108.

by giving ultimate/individual can transform everything/ expression to /the inner determinatiion of an/the infinite potential of human being

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Solution :By giving ULTIMATE EXPRESSION to the infinite potential of human being, the inner determination of an individual can TRANSFORM EVERYTHING.
Discussion
109.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. as used in line 42, the word "extravagant" most closely means

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luxurious
conservative
psychological
excessive

Solution :Excessive works here since it is referring to Descartes' acknowledgement that it WOULD be irrational to question some forms of KNOWLEDGE, such as those basic sensory perceptions, especially if he did so to the extent that the people who have DELUSIONS mentioned previously in this paragraph did. (A) is another DEFINITION of extravagant, but refers to expensive elegance. (B) is the opposite of this word meaning. And (C) does not reflect an extreme example as intended.
Discussion
110.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. lines 30-35 primarily illustrate descartes' thinking about

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the pitfalls of human perception
the superiority of logical reasoning
the importance of PROPER observational tools
the spectrum of sensory certainty.

Solution :These lines REFER to Descartes' acknowledgement that there are some truths that are "manifestly impossible to DOUBT." As EXAMPLES, Descartes presents sensory observations like his location, clothing, and current activities as occurrences of knowledge that he cannot refute. So, (D) is right. He is emphasizing the certainties of human perception, rather than the pitfalls. Additionally, he is not referring to "logical reasoning or "tools," but merely to FUNDAMENTAL senses.
Discussion
111.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. which option gives the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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lines 7-8 ("if I …sciences")
lines 15-16 ("I will…opinions")
lines 20-21 ("it will…doubt")
lines 39-40 ("or clothed…gourds")

SOLUTION :These lines give direct evidence of how Descartes plans to approach any and all knowledge claims. He states that he doesn't have to prove them wholly FALSE, but instead can reject any with a precarious existence. Choices (A) and (B) are related to the actual objective of ridding himself of ADOPTED beliefs, but do not consider his REQUIREMENT to what is false. And (D) is where he explains the absurdity of REBUKING the most fundamental knowledge.
Discussion
112.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. descartes' minimal threshold for dismissing a knowledge chaim is if it is

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completely in error
moderately wrong
even slightly flawed
any claim to knowledge

Solution :Lines 20-21 state that, at MINIMUM, Descartes can reject a concept if he FINDS "some ground for doubt." Hence, (C) is his threshold for dismissal. (A) and B) suggest that Descartes would have to FIND a more considerable flaw. Finally, dismissing all knowledge as in (D) isn't his GOAL.
Discussion
113.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. as used in line 10, the word "advanced" most closely means

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increasingly complex
far ALONG in TIME.
with great skill
significantly improved.

Solution :Here, the AUTHOR is INDICATING that he has waited until this age purposely to ensure that he is ready. So, (B) correctly designates ADVANCED as related to time. The other choices don't refer to the author's age.
Discussion
114.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. descartes uses the phrase in lines 37-38, "so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors," to illustrate what he believes to be

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the RELIGIOUS source of demonic possission
the physical source of HALLUCINOGENIC VISIONS
the psychological source of chronic dipression
the environmental source of mathematical logic

Solution :Lines 37-38 are a depiction of whatever it is that clouds the brain of the INSANE to make them think they are rich when they are poor, or they are clothed when naked, etc. So, it is RELATED to hallucinogenic visions, not demonic possession, chronic depression, or mathematical logic.
Discussion
115.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. which option gives the best evidenced for the answer to the previous question?

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lines 7-8 ("commencing…sciences")
lines 11-13 ("on this…action")
lines 21-23 ("nor for…labor")
lines 34-35 (" I hold…nature")

Solution :In lines 7-8, Descartes realizes that he must purge any peremptory knowledge in order to succeed in the sciences, so we can safely infer that he believes knowledge of the sciences-founded on PROVEN truths-to be of higher quality. (B) can be ruled out because it specifies that it is time to act, buț doesn't address any structure of knowledge. (D) refers only to Descartes' EXAMPLES of sensory truths, Choice (C) is appealing because it signifies Descartes' intentlon to disprove foundational beliefs, rather than go through each opinion. HOWEVER, it doesn't hint at how he might go about ordering CLAIMS of knowledge.
Discussion
116.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. the passage strongly implies that descartes believes that the structure of knowledge is best described as

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hierarchical
disconnected
indubitable.
nonexistent

Solution :Hierarchal ACCURATELY depicts Descartes' belief that knowledge is based on an order of rank. To him, CERTAIN FORMS of knowledge are superior to others, those of par ticular subservience are based wholly on false, predetermined opinions. (B) is incorrect because Descartes states that we form principles based on those opinions, so they are CONNECTED. Indubitable means "UNQUESTIONABLE." And nonexistent would imply that Descartes doesn't believe in knowledge whatsoever.
Discussion
117.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. descartes uses lines 8-13 to express why

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he believes that the foundations for knowledge are ERROR ridden
the intellectual project he is tackling is so improtant
his mental and physical health have begun to decline.
he has chosen this point in time to write this work.

Solution :Lines 8-13 refer to the fact that Descartes has waited until an optimal age to try to break down his FALSE PRINCIPLES, making (D) accurate. (A) and (B) are done in other lines, and (C) is not supported by the passage.
Discussion
118.

Below is the beginning excerpt from Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes, 1641, in which he muses about the nature of knowledge. MEDITATION I. of the Things of Which We May Now Doubt 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful, and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if l desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one of great magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me no hope that at any stage of life more advanced I should be better able to execute my design. On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now remains for action. Today, then, since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares [and am happily disturbed by no passions), and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply myself earnestly and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. 2. But, to this end, it will not be necessary for me to show that the whole of these are false-a point, perhaps, which I shall never reach, but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false, it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt. Nor for this purpose will it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually, which would be truly an endless labor, but, as the removal from below of the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach the criticism of the principles on which all my former beliefs rested. 3. All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us, and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 4. But it may be said, perhaps, that, although the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are so far removed from us as to be beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other of their informations (presentations), of the truth of which it is manifestly impossible to doubt, as for example, that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in My hands this piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest poverty, or clothed lin gold) and purple when destitute of any covering: or that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not less insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so extravagant. descartes' overall attitude towards knowledge as presented in the passage is best described as

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dogmatic
credulous
skeptical
POPULAR

Solution :As seen in lines 3-8, Descartes believes that he has accepted false knowledge and built his own principles on untruths, so he is skeptical. Dogmatic refers to an inclination to lay down principles as truth-this is the type of knowledge he wants to get RID of. His ability to acknowledge his own PRECONCEIVED notions SHOWS that he is not nave, or credulous. And while fallacy may be WIDESPREAD or popular, that does not illustrate his attitude toward knowledge.
Discussion
119.

But Champaran …................. (a)…………………begin as …................. (b)………………… act of defiance. It grew out …................. (c)………………… an attempt to alleviate the distress of large numbers of poor peasants. This …................. (d)………………… the typical Gandhi pattern. …................. (e)………………… politics was intertwined …................. (f)………………… the practical day-to-day problems of millions. It was not a …................. (g)………………… to abstractions, it was a loyalty to …................. (h)………………… human beings.

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on
in
with
of
Discussion
120.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: It is good to set our watch:

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1-2 MINUTES AHEAD
5-10 minutes ahead
11-15 minutes ahead
16-20 minutes ahead

Solution : 1-2 minutes ahead
Discussion
121.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question:In order to reach our job in time:

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we should drive our VEHICLE fast
we should not TALK to anyone while on the way to JOB
we should have 10 MINUTES more for unexpected delays
we should always leave for our job at CALCULATED time

Solution : we should have 10 minutes more for unexpected delays
Discussion
122.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: A person who always thinks positively is called:

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PESSIMIST
CONFIDENT
over-confident
OPTIMIST

SOLUTION :optimist
Discussion
123.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: We sometimes get late only because we think that:

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we have no TIME
we have a LOT of time
both (i) and (II)
NEITHER (i) nor (ii)

SOLUTION :we have a lot of time
Discussion
124.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: We shall disregard the time displayed by our clock when we set it:

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1-2 MINUTES AHEAD
3-4 minutes ahead
5 - 6 minutes ahead
15-20 minutes ahead

Solution :15-20 minutes ahead
Discussion
125.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: It is good to commit yourself ______for everything.

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SOLUTION : to being 15 MINUTES EARLY
Discussion
126.

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help themget up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.2. Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One ofthe easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is. 3. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don't be an optimist. Things usually takelonger than what you'd expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7.30 p.m., don't think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more toallow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time. 4. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don't hit the snooze button, keep on lying inbed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. May be try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed, that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8.00, don't even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens - but don't annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) “I have to be at work at 7.45.” If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question:The passage focuses on:

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how to save time
how to REACH somewhere in time
the right time to GET up
how to SET our watch

Solution :how to reach somewhere in time
Discussion
127.

1. On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I engaged in the Battle of Solferino,commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing, many of whom were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman andsocial activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was travelling in Solferino witnessed all this. 2. Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the atrocities of war as well as the countries not prepared orequipped to ease the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino. Dunant organised a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to assist with medical treatment, or write letters to the families of those who were dying and he urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. After that moment, he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. His writing inspired countless others torally behind him in the creation of the International Federation of the Red Cross.3. The modern-day Red Cross began by Devoting itself largely to disaster relief and epidemictreatment. This effort continues to this day. One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn't the only way you can help out-the Red Cross also encourages donating your time if you can. This is what the Red Cross wants everyone to know. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: The writer of A Memory of Solferino’ was:

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Emperor NAPOLEON III
FRANZ Joseph I
JEAN HENRI Dunant

Solution : Jean Henri Dunant
Discussion
128.

1. On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I engaged in the Battle of Solferino,commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing, many of whom were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman andsocial activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was travelling in Solferino witnessed all this. 2. Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the atrocities of war as well as the countries not prepared orequipped to ease the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino. Dunant organised a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to assist with medical treatment, or write letters to the families of those who were dying and he urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. After that moment, he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. His writing inspired countless others torally behind him in the creation of the International Federation of the Red Cross.3. The modern-day Red Cross began by Devoting itself largely to disaster relief and epidemictreatment. This effort continues to this day. One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn't the only way you can help out-the Red Cross also encourages donating your time if you can. This is what the Red Cross wants everyone to know. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: What is the correct order of the information given below?

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Dunant organised a camp of volunteers.
Emperor NAPOLEON III and Franz Joseph I FOUGHT a battle.
The BOOK ‘A Memory of SOLFERINO' was written.
Dunant travelled in Solferino.

Solution :(ii), (IV), (i), (iii)
Discussion
129.

1. On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I engaged in the Battle of Solferino,commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing, many of whom were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman andsocial activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was travelling in Solferino witnessed all this. 2. Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the atrocities of war as well as the countries not prepared orequipped to ease the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino. Dunant organised a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to assist with medical treatment, or write letters to the families of those who were dying and he urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. After that moment, he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. His writing inspired countless others torally behind him in the creation of the International Federation of the Red Cross.3. The modern-day Red Cross began by Devoting itself largely to disaster relief and epidemictreatment. This effort continues to this day. One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn't the only way you can help out-the Red Cross also encourages donating your time if you can. This is what the Red Cross wants everyone to know. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: The aid provided by Dunant's volunteers during the battle of Solferino was:(i) to help bring water and food to the injured (ii) to assist with medical treatment (iii) to write a book(iv) to give relief in epidemic

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(i) and (III)
(i) and (IV)
(i) and (II)
(ii) and (iii)

SOLUTION :(i) and (ii)
Discussion
130.

1. On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I engaged in the Battle of Solferino,commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing, many of whom were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman andsocial activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was travelling in Solferino witnessed all this. 2. Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the atrocities of war as well as the countries not prepared orequipped to ease the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino. Dunant organised a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to assist with medical treatment, or write letters to the families of those who were dying and he urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. After that moment, he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. His writing inspired countless others torally behind him in the creation of the International Federation of the Red Cross.3. The modern-day Red Cross began by Devoting itself largely to disaster relief and epidemictreatment. This effort continues to this day. One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn't the only way you can help out-the Red Cross also encourages donating your time if you can. This is what the Red Cross wants everyone to know. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question:The most appropriate sub-heading to para 2 of the passage is:

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How INTERNATIONAL RED Cross Evolved
Functions of Red Cross
The CONTRIBUTIONS of Jean Henri Dunant
The BATTLE of Solferino

Solution :How International Federation Red Cross Evolved
Discussion
131.

1. On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I engaged in the Battle of Solferino,commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing, many of whom were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman andsocial activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was travelling in Solferino witnessed all this. 2. Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the atrocities of war as well as the countries not prepared orequipped to ease the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino. Dunant organised a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to assist with medical treatment, or write letters to the families of those who were dying and he urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. After that moment, he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which urged the public to create an organisation which would assist the wounded, regardless of which side they fought for during times of war. His writing inspired countless others torally behind him in the creation of the International Federation of the Red Cross.3. The modern-day Red Cross began by Devoting itself largely to disaster relief and epidemictreatment. This effort continues to this day. One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn't the only way you can help out-the Red Cross also encourages donating your time if you can. This is what the Red Cross wants everyone to know. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the question: The modern day Red Cross does not deal with:

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BLOOD donation
Disaster RELIEF
EPIDEMIC Treatment
Writing a book

Solution :Writing a book
Discussion
132.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 2. The passage is generally organized

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from most to least important details
chronologically
spatially
through a SEQUENCE of flashbacks and present-day reflection.

Solution :The PASSAGE progresses chronologically, beginning with pip's FIRST time MEETING miss havisham and estella, and moving to sequential meetings. It is not structured around spaces or the significance of details. (d) is TEMPTING, but incorrect because the passage is told in past tense rather than "flashbacks," and there is no evidence that the narrator's reflections have been altered by time
Discussion
133.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 1. The passage can best be summarized as witch one of the following statement?

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A boy has interesting interactions at an old woman's house and reflects on these experiences.
A boy SEDUCES a girl into falling in love with him for the years to come.
A woman teaches a young boy about the merits of apprenticeship
A girl travels ABROAD for her education, leaving her companion behind to FEND for himself

Solution :The passage as a whole describes the unusual experiences of a boy in the "satis House" and how those experiences come to change his LIFE. The passage does not give evidence that the boy seduces the girl. (c) and (d) are related to details within the passage, but not accurate summaries of the main Idea.
Discussion
134.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 4. As used in line 12, the word "resting" most closely means

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suppressing
dreaming
sleeping
LAYING

Solution :Laying is the best choice here since it refers to MISS havisham's ELBOW "resting" on the table.
Discussion
135.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 3. The second paragraph (lines 3-7) serves to explain

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why PIP wanted to be a gentleman
why miss havisham DESIRED companionship
how pip came to be at miss havisham's
how pip came to fall in love with estella

Solution :Lines 3-7 provide the backstory for how pip came to the house of miss havisham. (a), (B), and (d) all COME LATER.
Discussion
136.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 5. What best describes miss havisham's appearance?

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Typical
UNUSUAL
Colorful
Vivacious

Solution :Miss havisham is described by the narrator as strange, so unusual is correct. (a) is the opposite of strange. (c) and (d) don't work because the ROOM and the bride are DULL and COLORLESS. Similarly, words LIKE grim, seclusion, and withered give evidence that miss havisham is anything but lively.
Discussion
137.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 7. How does pip feel about his current social and economic circumstances?

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Dissatisfied
Content
Serene
Entertained

Solution :This can be SEEN best in LINES 39-41 and 52-54. pip becomes aware of his LOWLINESS and becomes dissatisfied with himself, even "ashamed of home." (b) and (c) are opposite of his feelings. Finally, (D) has a POSITIVE connotation that does not make sense here.
Discussion
138.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 6. Which option gives the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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Lines 3-4 ("My… BARRED")
Lines 11-13 ("she…see")
Lines 27-28 ("Broken…Play")
Lines 31-32 ("it was…do it")

Solution :GIVE direct evidence that the narrator believes miss havisham is strange LOOKING (a) gives DETAIL of the appearance of the house RATHER than the inhabitant. (c) describes miss havisham's emotional state rather than her appearance. (d) doesn't refer to miss havisham at all.
Discussion
139.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 10. As used in line 46, the word "afflicted" most closely means

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diseased
strengthened
emboldened
troubled

Solution :Troubled is the best CHOICE. (a) is too strong of a WORD. (b) and (c) inaccurately PORTRAY the narrator's shame as a power or strong point.
Discussion
140.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 9. The Paragraph in lines 39-41 highlights pip's feeling

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a sense of belonging
a need to show off
out of place
ready to argue

Solution :These lines refer to pip's first time leaving the GLOOMY house of miss havisham. Here, he feels ill at ease and disquieted, becoming INSECURE with himself for the first time in his life. The other OPTIONS don't FIT this mood ACCURATELY.
Discussion
141.

Charles Dickens's Great expectations ws first published in 1861. pip, apoor orphan who is cared for by his sister and her husband, meets the young girl who will become the lifetime object of his affections while simultaneously becoming aware of his lowly position in the caste system. I must have been about ten years old when I went to miss havisham's, and first met Estella. My uncle pumblechook, who kept a cornchandler's shop in the high-street of the line town, took me to the large old, dismal house, which had all its windows barred. For miles round everybody had heard of miss havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who led a life of seclusion, and everybody soon knew that Mr. pumblechook had been commissioned to bring her a boy. He left me at the courtyard, and a young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud, let me in, and I noticed that the passages were all dark, and that there was a candle burning. My guide, who called me "boy," but was really about my own age, was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen. She led me to miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady i have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials-satins and lace and silks-all of white-or rather, which had been white, but, like all else in the room, were now faded yellow. Her shoes were white, and she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress. "who is it?" said the lady at the table. "pip, ma'am. Mr. pumblechook's boy." "come nearer: let me look at you, come close. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No, ma'am." "do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. "yes, ma'am: your heart." "broken!" she was silent for a little while, and then added, "I am tired, I want diversion. play, play, play!" what was an unfortunate boy to do? I didn't know how to play. "call Estella," said the lady. "call Estella, at the door." It was a dreadful thing to be bawling "estella" to a scornful young lady in a mystrious passage in an unknown house, but I had to do it. And Estella came, and I heard her say, in answer to miss havisham, "Play with this boy! why, he is a common labouring boy!" I thought I overheard miss havisham answer, "well? you can break his heart." we played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "he calls the knaves jacks, this boy! and what coarse hands he has! and what thick boots!" I was very glad to get away. My coarse hands and my common boots had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, and i determined to ask joe why he had taught me to call those picture cards jacks which ought to be called knaves. for a long time i went once a week to this strange, gloomy house-it was called satis house-and once estella told me I might kiss her. and then miss havisham decided I was to be apprenticed to joe, and gave him £25 for the purpose, and i left off going to see her, and helped joe in the forge. But i didn't like joe's trade, and i was afflicted by that most miserable thing-to feel ashamed of home. I couldn't resist paying miss havisham a visit, and, not seeing estella, stammered that i hoped she was well. "abroad," said miss havisham, "educating for a lady, far out of reach, prettier than ever,admired by all who see her. do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myslef coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman. 8. Which option gives the best evedence for the answer to the previous question?

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Lines 8-10 ("He left…burning")
Lines 23-26 ("No…heart")
Lines 35 ("I thought…heart")
Lines 52-54 ("I was…gentleman")

Solution :Lines 52-54 refer to PIP's feelings upon leaving MISS HAVISHAM's after inquiring about ESTELLA. He "went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable." (A), (b), and (c) don't discuss pip's feelings about his social and / or economic situation.
Discussion
142.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 2. Lines 1-3 (" Amory.... while") most strongly suggest that

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amory and his mother share many UNFAVORABLE qualities
amory's best characteristics came from his mother
Amory's greatintellect and PERSONALITY came from his father
amory has a strimkinginterest in genetics

Solution :The opening lines state thatthe fraits that have MADE amory worthwhile came from his mother. A(A) is incorrect because the NARRATOR asserts that amory's best qualities are those that he received from beaterice, i. e., ismom. (c) is incorrect because sitephen PASSED down only his height and indecisiveness according to lines 11-15.(D) is not supported within the passage at all.
Discussion
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Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q). 1 Beatrice is best characterized as

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PRIVILEGED and eccentric
mean -siirited and haughty
welthy and industrious
misanthropic and itinerant

Solution :beatrice is described as exceptionally wealthy, CHARMING, and cultured, yet the author makes sure to deplet her as superficial and idiosyneratic. ECENTRIC means" unconventional or unusual, " so (A) accurately expresses her CHARACTER beartrice is CERTAINLY haughty or arrogant, " but she is not mean spirited or hateful. she is wealthy but not hard working. And itinerant, meaning traveling. describes beatrice, whele misantropic, meaning " unsociable, "does not.
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Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 3. The style of the second paragraph (line 22-49) is generally

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educational and moreose
INTELLECTUAL and nebulous
idealistic and optimistic
emphatic and descriptive

Solution :The second paragraph is a compelling description of amory's MOTHER, beatrice Emphatic MEANS forceful or done with emphasis," so it EXEMPLIFIES the paragraph's sytle. It is not gloomy and educational as in (A). Vague and intellectual a s in (B). Or naïve and hopeful as in (C)
Discussion
145.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 5. The passage implies that beatrice married stephen for what reason?

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TRUE love
because she settled
because she was forced
beacause of vengeance

Solution :Lines 50-53 claim that BEATRICE married STEPHEN because she was " WEARY " and" sad," making (B) the correct answer. There is no evidence that she fel in love with or was forced to marry him. Likewise, vengeance implies retaliation or a punishment for a wrongdoing. which is not mentioned
Discussion
146.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 4. As used in line 31, theword" passed" most closely means

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spent
gave up
tossed
AGREED

Solution :Lines 30-49 refer to how BEATRICE's youth is passed, so spent is the appropriate choice. It is not correct usage to SAY she gaveup tossed, or agreed her youth.
Discussion
147.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her (Q) 8. Which option gives the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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Lines 15-21(" For.. . Her" )
Lines 41-49 (" All ….. Bud" )
Lines 72-80 (" So … Mother" )
Lines 84-87(" Dear … up " )

Solution :Lines 72-80 provide the BEST evidence for Amory's one of a kind childhood. The narrator differentiates him from even those children of his same social and economic class, making it CLEAR that Amory's experience is anomalous. Choice (A) REFERS to stephen's ROLE in the family. (b) is incorrect because it addresses beatrice's education rather than her son's. Finally (D) is an EXAMPLE of beatrice's quirky morality that she attempts to pass on to her son, but is not reflective of his upbringing or education more generally,
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148.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 7. Amory's upbringing and education can best be described as

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demanding
scholarly
exhausting
unique

Solution :Lines 72-80 INDICATE that Amory's upbringing is unlike other " little rich boyes' and that his education is " highly specialized making choice (D)correct. Choices (A) and (C) are not supported since the passage describes amory's youth as one of advantage and leisure. Ad while amory was certainly educated, his knowledge CAME from atypical experiences rather than the more conventional scholarly METHODS.
Discussion
149.

Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her.(Q) 6. Which option gives thebest evidence for the answer to the previous question

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Lines 3-10 (" his FATHER … O' Hara" )
Lines 15-21(" For many .. Her" )
Lines 50-53(" In her…. Sad" )
Lines 84-87(" Dear … up " )

SOLUTION :These line sprovide the most direct EVIDENCE for BEATRICE's marital motivations. (A) refers to Amory's father's choices rather than his MOTHER's. (B) describes the relationshipof Amory's parents after they are married. And choice (D) is unrelated as it is a dialogue between beatrice and Amory regarding the mertis of incativty.
Discussion
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Amory blaine inherite from his mother every trait, exept the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, line an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for byron and a habit of drowsing over the encyclopedia britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar harbor and met beatrice O ' hara. In consequence, stephen blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son amory. for many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in taking care of his wife, continually harassed by the indea that he didn't and couldn't understander her. But Beartice blaine there was a woman early pictures taken on her fater's eastate at lake geneva, Wisconsin or in Rome at the sacrd heart convent _an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally welthy showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she had _ her youth passaed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of trhe older Roman families, known by name as a fabulously wealthy american girl to cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whickey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broad ended in two senses during a winter in vienna. All in all beatrice O hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again, a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about, a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud. In her less important moments she returned to America, met stephen blaine and married him_ this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day ininety _six. when amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative maind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her fathers private car, from coronado, where f=his mother became so bord that she had nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel down to Mexico city. where she took a mild, almost spidemic cosumption. this trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere- especially after several astounding bracers. So while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at newport, or being spanked or tutored or reqd to from " Do and Dare, " or " Frank on the Mississippi, " Amory was biting acquiescent bell -boys in the waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly special ized education froj his mother amory" " Yes, beatrice. " Such a quaint name for his mother, she encouraged it. dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes on nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up." " All right." I am feeling very old to day, amory, she would sigh, her face a rare coameo of pathos, her voice exquisityely modulated, her hands as facile as bernhardt's my nerves are on edge- on edge. We must leave this terrifying place to morrow and go searching for sunchine." Amory's penetrating gre3en eyes would look out through tangled hair at his m other even at this age he had no illusions about her. (Q) 10. Amory's relationship with his mother is

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traditionally pious
unusually friendly BLATANTLY disrespectful
cold and distant

Solution :Amory's relationship with his mother can be best seen through their dialogue at the END of the passage. Amory's use of his mother's first NAME indicates that their AFFILIATION relationship. So (B) works best her, where friendly refers to " approachable and informal." using his mother's first name is far from traditional.as in (A) . And since she finds itagreeable, there is no evidence that Amory is disrespectful as in (C) . choice (D)can be tempting because amory not only USES beatrice's first name in addressing her, but the or distant is too negative.
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