Answer:
1) He believes that his suffering has been minimal...
Explanation:
“... but when I compare my lot with that if most of my countrymen, I regard my myself as a particular favourite of Heaven...” He believes that when compared to others, his suffering has been minimal.
In this context lousy is being used as doing something poorly or badly. The family is doing a poor job at holding their new years resolution.
Strict is being used as stern in a way to not break character. / The father will not break his diet.
Stuffing is used as a way to say eating a lot or eating like a pig. The father was feeding himself like a pig.
It is relatively easy to spot a gerund, given that it looks like a verb + ing. Having that in mind, the gerund here is drinking from the tap. This gerund acts as the subject of the sentence, which you can easily determine by asking the question What is perfectly safe?, and the answer will be Drinking from the tap - that's how you know it is the subject.
So, the correct answer is drinking from the tap/subject.
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The correct answer is generate a topic
If you flip through it you might find something that interests you and you can use this to generate a topic.