The following text is adapted from Anton Chekhov’s 1898 story “Love.” The narrator is meeting his lover, Sasha, at the park. Between four and five o’clock in the afternoon I made my way to the furthest and most overgrown part of the park. There was not a soul in the park, and the tryst might have taken place somewhere nearer in one of the avenues or arbours, but women don’t like doing it by halves in romantic affairs; in for a penny, in for a pound—if you are in for a tryst, let it be in the furthest and most impenetrable thicket, where one runs the risk of stumbling upon some rough or drunken man. When I went up to Sasha she was standing with her back to me, and in that back I could read a devilish lot of mystery.Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?It describes the narrator’s interior hesitations about meeting his lover, and then switches to his lover’s point of view.eliminateIt emphasizes the excitement the narrator’s lover must feel, waiting for him to arrive.eliminateIt details the narrator’s arrival at the park and shows him philosophizing about what women want as he approaches his lover.eliminateIt moves from an abstract description of love to the concrete description of a meeting with the narrator’s lover.

"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. In the story, the banker finds it impossible to respect the terms of the bet because he had fallen on difficult days due to his own erroneous behaviors.9Mark for ReviewMCQABCWhich quotation from "The Bet" most effectively illustrates the claim?A"The banker recalled all this, and thought: 'To-morrow at twelve o’clock he receives his freedom. Under the agreement, I shall have to pay him two millions. If I pay, it’s all over with me. I am ruined for ever ...'"B"'Poor devil,' thought the banker, 'he’s asleep and probably seeing millions in his dreams. I have only to take and throw this half-dead thing on the bed, smother him a moment with the pillow, and the most careful examination will find no trace of unnatural death.'"CFor fifteen years I have diligently studied earthly life. True, I saw neither the earth nor the people, but in your books I drank fragrant wine, sang songs, hunted deer and wild boar in the forests, loved women... And beautiful women, like clouds ethereal, created by the magic of your poets’ genius, visited me by night and whispered to me wonderful tales, which made my head drunken."D"Gambling on the Stock-Exchange, risky speculation, and the recklessness of which he could not rid himself even in old age, had gradually brought his business to decay; and the fearless, self-confident, proud man of business had become an ordinary banker, trembling at every rise and fall in the market."

Click to read "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now," by A. E. Housman. Then answer the question.Which line(s) from the poem best support(s) the theme that people should take pleasure in nature during their short lives?A.Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again,B.And take from seventy springs a score,C.And stands about the woodland rideD.And since to look at things in bloom / Fifty springs are little room.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

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Select the correct answer.What statement best summarizes the passage? A. The narrator and her husband argue about how the summer should be spent as he wants to have guests and she wants to be alone. B. The narrator contemplates having time to grow her soul by refusing to see anyone besides her husband or read any books for the summer. C. The narrator describes how she wants to explore nature and then compares herself to a bird that is both cheerful and quarrelsome. D. The narrator longs to spend the summer in solitude out in nature, and her husband thinks that she will be bored.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail from the passage best reveals the idea that the little things in life are worth exploring?(25) He took her back to the drawing-room and left her there, drank several glasses of champagne and watched her during supper. She allowed two young members of the Diplomatic Corps to wait on her, but made fun of them all the time and treated them as if they were footmen.(26) As soon as the cotillon1 began, he went to her and offered her a bouquet.(27) "Do you accept me?" he asked.(28) "Yes," she replied.(29) And so they were engaged.(30) It's a splendid match, said the world. They are made for one another. They are equals as far as social position and money are concerned. They hold the same blasé views of life. By blasé the world meant that they cared very little for dances, theatres, bazaars, and other noble sports without which life is not really worth living.(31) They were like carefully wiped twin slates, exactly alike; but utterly unable to surmise whether or not life would write the same legend on both. They never asked one another during the tender moments of their engagement: Do you love me? They knew quite well that it was impossible, because they did not believe in love. They talked little, but they understood one another perfectly.And they married.