Serec une correct text in the passage. Isolation is a major theme in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Which two excerpts best reflect Gregor's isolated condition after his
transformation?
He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room where he
could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their conversation-with
everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite differently from before.
All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister would urge
each other to be quiet: his mother, bent deeply under the lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop: his sister, who had taken a
sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings so that she might be able to get a better position later on.
Gregor never responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he was without moving as if the door had never even been
opened. If only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she
felt like it!
The woman most likely meant to fetch the things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to throw everything out in one
go, but what actually happened was that they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown unless Gregor made his way
through the junk and moved it somewhere else.
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Ineed . read this textbook passage. select the five (5) statements which are most logically supported by the given information. what would you do if you won ten million dollars in a lottery? your first reaction might be, “i’d spend the rest of my life on the beach (or skiing or traveling).” but in all likelihood you, like most other people who receive financial windfalls, would seek some kind of work eventually. a variety of motives keeps people working, even when they don’t need a paycheck to survive. if you’ve ever worked as a volunteer, you know that someone can be more satisfying than receiving pay. work also provides a sense of identity. one man aged 81 said, “i’ve been in the fabric business since i was a kid, and i still get a kick out of it." studies suggest that rats, pigeons, and children sometimes work to gain rewards, even if they can get the same rewards without working. one researcher wrote the following on the subject: rats will run down an alley tripping over hundreds of food pellets to obtain a single, identical pellet in the goal box, . . and pigeons will peck a key . . to get exactly the same food that is freely available in a nearby cup. given the choice of receiving marbles merely by waiting a certain amount of time for their delivery, children tend to prefer to press a lever . . to get the same marbles. 1. serving a purpose is satisfying. 2. it is not so lucky to win a large amount of money in a lottery. 3. endless “vacationing” eventually becomes dissatisfying. 4. the pay we receive is unimportant. 5. most people try to work as little as possible. 6. people, rats, and pigeons enjoy the challenges and interaction that work offers. 7. it generally feels better to achieve something than to be given something. 8. people who don’t retire continue to work only because they need the money. 9. most people who work as volunteers resent the fact that they are not paid for their work. 10. work can be its own reward.