The lilliputians
In Gulliver's Travels Swift uses the tiny people - the Lilliputians- to represent what is petty and small-minded about English society.
The viewpoint gathered from the passage is:
Sarah’s determination to hide with her brother rather than wait for the Germans is admirable.
Explanation:
Sarah begins the passage by wondering if the brother is going to sit there and let the Germans take him away and then says that surely she would not let that happen.
This is the line that sets up the passage for what is to be narrated for the whole passage which is her plans and her determination to save her brother from sure death in the German death camps.
It is her foresight that has allowed her to understand what is going to happen and she willingly takes steps to avoid it.
<u>Answer:</u>
<em>The close relationship between sumo wrestlers could be an incentive for an elite wrestler to throw a match he does not need to win. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
According to the passage given, it is clear that the wrestlers were intact at night and would not allow any incentives that would have led them to lose in the fight and if they lost then bribes would have emerged as the other means of incentives. The relationship of Sumo made more understand that the race with internal smiles needed one to cross several miles in life.
From the given choices: l<span>uxurious, arrogant, elegant, pretentious and fashionable
The words with positive connotation would be luxurious, elegant and fashionable. (there words represent a good sense of style of the described object/person).
The words arrogant and pretentious refer to the more egoistic qualities of people and do not have a positive connotation.
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