Write a precis of the following passage and give it a suitable heading : The world a today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause
some nuisance to the non-smokers but this nuisance is physical while the nuisance that the non-smokers
cause the smokers is spiritual. There are, of course, a lot of non-smokers who don't try to interfere with
the smokers, and wives can be trained even to tolerate their husbands smoking in bed. That is the surest
sign of a happy and successful marriage. It is sometimes assumed, however, that the non-smokers are
morally superior and that they have something to be proud of, not realising that they have missed one
of the greatest pleasures of mankind. I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on
the other hand we must beware of one without
weakness. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always
sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more
mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable
persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill-at-ease, when I
enter a house in which there are no ash-trays. The room is apt to be too clean and orderly, the cushions
are apt to be in their right places and the people are apt to be correct and unemotional. And immediately
I am put on may best behaviour which meant the same thing as the most uncomfortable behaviour.
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Vocabulary : 1. Nuisance : trouble ; offence 2. Spiritual : of the soul 3. Assumed : believe 4.
Existence : life 5. Mechanical : like a machine 6. Supremacy : highest power and authority 7. Unemo-
tional : having no feelings.

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

Hurry 100 points consider the speakers in "the raven" and the speaker in "the song of wandering aengus."write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the voice in these two poems. how does the poet give the speaker in each poem a distinctive voice? what effect does this voice have in each poem?

Which quotation best supports the authors’ claim and purpose?