Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
Khushwant Singh grandmother was a kind hearted and God fearing woman. Following are the instances which show her qualities in the lesson. As the religious woman; she was always busy in telling the beads of rosary, her lips always moved in inaudible prayer. At the village temple, she reads the religious books.
The correct answer is choice 3
In drama, soliloquy refers to <span>a character speaking his or her thoughts (or feelings) aloud while alone on stage. Therefore, although the character is speaking, he gives the illusion that he is </span><span>in a series of unspoken reflections.</span>
I think they saw him as a hero for catching a really big carp. Carp can ruin an ecosystem very quickly.
