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[shahraam]

Hi

a - III

b - III --- "legitimacy is denied", text says, as of the cases within which the coercion would be happened

c - II   --- as it's just like a political and governmental custom

 d - IV  --- texts has asserted that it is more than the view that such individuals are gifted

e - II   --- while is the keyword

Matin

Excellent! The only thing is that in your answer to b, "coercion would be happened" is not correct. You could say "coercion is required" or "coercion would be needed". /0

[shahraam]

This one is from the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I have attached the text and questions in PDF format too./0

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name

Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing

longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and

came to be called Pip./0

…/00

As I never saw my father or my mother, and

never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were

long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding

what they were like were unreasonably derived from their

tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me

an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly

black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription,

“Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion

that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone

lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged

in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to

the memory of five little brothers of mine,—who gave up trying

to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,—I

am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had

all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers pockets,

and had never taken them out in this state of existence./1



a.Has Pip ever seen his mom’s picture?/2

b.How tall were Pip’s brothers  when they passed away?/3

c. How did Pip come up with the idea that his father was strong?/4

c.Can Pip say with certainty that his mom was freckled?/5

d. Write a summary of the passage./6

[shahraam]

There is a small error in the PDF file attached to the previous post. Choice a should be "Has Pip ever seen..." /0

[shahraam]

I was browsing through other topics in the forum when I came across this post. It is a TOEFL essay which was posted a while ago by user TOEFLL110 in here./0

Although it was posted a long time ago and the poster might not need what he or she asked then, it is still a good exercise. Can you make this essay more readable and more coherent?/0

Here it is

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
 
Some people prefer to keep their old friends others are inclined towards making new friends. As far as I am concerned, I agree that trying to remain old friends is a high priority/ has priority over to make new ones. In that, not only does a long-standing friendship supply a secure space to have enjoyable moments beside friends, but also it allows friends to be close intimately in order to help each other under difficult circumstances. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.
 
One of the primary causes is that having old friends creates a friendly atmosphere. So that friends change their mood and feel relaxed. For instance, when a person has a lifelong friendship with his friends, he has a lot in common with them. So they can spend much of their leisure time with each other such as to go a cinema, take a trip, play a game etc. Furthermore, existence of great similarity among them can be constructive to understand and influence each other in a good way.
 
But there is an additional subtle point we must consider. Old friends can trust each other greatly in order to solve a dilemma which one of them faces. To illustrate, imagine one of them is stressful and coward as he applies for a job. It causes him to fail in that job interview. In this situation, other friends can guide him properly and give some solutions to resolve his issue.
 
In a word, an old friend laughs at your jokes when he is not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when he is not so bad

[siminbaraneh]

a. based on to the story  he has not ever seen the photo  of them and only by seeing the tombstone of them he imagine she was freckled and sickly

b. I supposed according to their tombstones  they were about a foot and half  long

c. I  assume his fancies was from the shape of their  tombstones and according to the letters of on his father grave he imagine he was strong    

d. As we understand from the story  he only imagine and drew a childish fancy  that his mother was freckled

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The story illustrate a person that his name was pirrip Philip but because of currency and habit from his  childhood tongue  he called pip     he had never seen his parents and any picture of them .he only imagine them from the shape of their tombstones. he supposed that his father was square and stout with curly black hair and her mother was freckled and sickly . and by 5 little stones he imagine his 5 little brothers that died

with the best

simin       

[shahraam]

a. based on to the story  he has not ever seen the photo  of them and only by seeing the tombstone of them he imagine she was freckled and sickly

b. I supposed according to their tombstones  they were about a foot and half  long

c. I  assume his fancies was from the shape of their  tombstones and according to the letters of on his father grave he imagine he was strong    

d. As we understand from the story  he only imagine and drew a childish fancy  that his mother was freckled

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The story illustrate a person that his name was pirrip Philip but because of currency and habit from his  childhood tongue  he called pip     he had never seen his parents and any picture of them .he only imagine them from the shape of their tombstones. he supposed that his father was square and stout with curly black hair and her mother was freckled and sickly . and by 5 little stones he imagine his 5 little brothers that died

with the best

simin
      

Hi Simin

Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions. Please see below some corrections I made to your answers. I prefer to wait for other replies before I make any corrections to your summary ./0

a.Based on the story,  he has never seen her photo and only by observing the inscription on her tombstone, concluded that she was freckled and sickly./1

b.I suppose, according to their tombstones, they were about a foot and half  tall./2
c. I  assume his fancies about his father's strength came from the shape of the letters of his tombstone's epitaph./3

d. No, as we understand from the story, he only imagined and drew a childish conclusion that his mother was freckled./4

[shahraam]

a. based on to the story  he has not ever seen the photo  of them and only by seeing the tombstone of them he imagine she was freckled and sickly

b. I supposed according to their tombstones  they were about a foot and half  long

c. I  assume his fancies was from the shape of their  tombstones and according to the letters of on his father grave he imagine he was strong    

d. As we understand from the story  he only imagine and drew a childish fancy  that his mother was freckled

brief  

The story illustrate a person that his name was pirrip Philip but because of currency and habit from his  childhood tongue  he called pip     he had never seen his parents and any picture of them .he only imagine them from the shape of their tombstones. he supposed that his father was square and stout with curly black hair and her mother was freckled and sickly . and by 5 little stones he imagine his 5 little brothers that died

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simin       

You did a good job for parts a to d and your answers are correct. However, your summary could have been a bit better. Thanks/0  

[shahraam]

Hi

a - According to the passage, his tranquilizing life with her queen, under the aegis of their glorious love, had a indispensable impact on his happiness

b - Yes, considerably. Based on the explicit assertions within the text, the two had correspondences, in view of gifts, letters and so on, within the years of separation, albeit no face-to-face appointment

 c - In my estimation, it refers to Polixenes. "he" pronoun, located in the previous sentence does point to Polixenes and his new happiness due to queen's behavior. The target "he" is just relegated to the same reference, with due attention to both semantics of the sentence and overall meaning of the complex statement, stemmed from "that" relative pronoun

Best,

Matin

c. The correct answer is Leontes. Here is the original paragraph and its reworded and somewhat summarized version:/0

At last, after repeated invitations, Polixenes came from Bohemia to the Sicilian court to pay his friend Leontes a visit. At first this visit gave nothing but pleasure to Leontes. He begged the queen to show special care and attention to his dear friend and he seemed to have found perfect happiness now that he was with his old companion. They talked about old times; they remembered their schooldays and their youthful games. They told stories of these to Hermione, who always took a cheerful part in these conversations./1

Finally, after many invitations, Polixenes came to the Sicilian Court to pay Leontes a visit. At first, this visit gave nothing but pleasure to Leontes. He (Leontes) begged his queen to show special attention to his (Leontes') dear friend and he (Leontes) seemed to have found perfect happiness now that he (Leontes) was with his old companion (Polixenes). .../2

[shahraam]

a. based on to the story  he has not ever seen the photo  of them and only by seeing the tombstone of them he imagine she was freckled and sickly

b. I supposed according to their tombstones  they were about a foot and half  long

c. I  assume his fancies was from the shape of their  tombstones and according to the letters of on his father grave he imagine he was strong    

d. As we understand from the story  he only imagine and drew a childish fancy  that his mother was freckled

brief  

The story illustrate a person that his name was pirrip Philip but because of currency and habit from his  childhood tongue  he called pip     he had never seen his parents and any picture of them .he only imagine them from the shape of their tombstones. he supposed that his father was square and stout with curly black hair and her mother was freckled and sickly . and by 5 little stones he imagine his 5 little brothers that died

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simin       

The word currency normally refers to a system of money like Dollar or Euro. For example: The currency of Canada is Canadian Dollar. The words illustrate and imagine should have been written with s at the end. Please try to rewrite your summary and make it more readable. Thanks /0

[shahraam]

We've had four reading comprehension exercises so far. I'd like to ask Matin and Simin who provided answers to those exercises to let us know which words, if any, they needed to look up in a dictionary. Thanks /0