In spite of her rain-soaked clothing and appearance, it seemed to me that she had never looked lovelier.
I think it’s D!
In a sentence using passive voice, the subject is acted upon; he or she receives the action expressed by the verb. The agent performing the action may appear in a "by the..." phrase or may be omitted. The dog is acting upon the sentence subject (the boy), meaning it uses the passive voice.
39. A (you just need to use context clues)
40. D
41. B
42. C
Answer:
1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.
2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich, the author talks about the life and death of Ivan Ilyich and how the falsity around him helped hasten his death.
The two sentences in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich that reflects the author's belief that Russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion are the statement that Ivan Ilyich would want to express emotions of sadness and crying but when his comrade came over, he would pretend and assume to be serious and unbothered, and the statement about the falsity around Ivan Ilyich poisoned hisast days.
Answer:
the window was broken by him
