18) speaks
19) meet
20)smoke
21)not to go
22)has been waiting
23) have I talked to
24) are expected
25)that you be
26)should have told
        
             
        
        
        
Ascent means to go up, as in:
<em>The elevator ascended away from me.</em>
I hope this helps!
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer and Explanation:
This question is about "The dirty English."
The uncle tried to defend the English by trying to justify the behavior that the English had and that were very different from the behavior of the Hindus. It is likely that the uncle is more tolerant of the English than his grandmother because Uncle lived two years in England and learned to judge the English based on English culture and not based on Hindu culture, as the grandmother did.
 
        
             
        
        
        
The answer is: it is about evolution. 
Darwin himself characterized his seminal book, <em>On the origin of the species, </em>as “one long argument”. There is still debate as to what exactly did he mean by that characterization, but it is agreed upon that he evidently was referencing his theory of evolution based on common ancestry between species and natural selection as the process of differentiation between them, which, all in all, tells a story that took millions of years, or, in more poetic terms, it summarizes a very long argument.