Tag: english 12

  • Lesson 8: China’s Way to Progress

    Galeazzo Santini Q. Why has the world changed its attitude towards China? A. Because of the significant progress China has made, the world has to change its attitude towards it. Q. Discuss the Chinese agricultural system.  A. Chinese agriculture runs through the system of communes with subdivisions into production brigades and teams. Still, the greater…

  • Lesson 7: My financial career

    Stephen Leacock Q. What light do the following expressions throw on Leacock’s state of mind when he entered the bank: ‘looked timidly round,’ ‘shambled in’? A. These expressions imply that the writer was hesitating and behaved in a silly manner in confusion. Q. Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful…

    a customer looking very embarrassed in front of different windows in a bank, holding a few crumbled dollars in his hand.
  • Lesson 6: The man who was a hospital

    Jerome K. Jerome Q. How did Jerome K Jerome come to suspect that his liver was out of order? What were the diseases he thought he was suffering from on reading a book on the treatment of diseases? A. On reading various symptoms from a liver pill circular, he found that his liver was out…