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6.Comment on the following quotes with reference to the story and everyday
life.
1.There are no types, no plurals.
2.The sense of possession makes rich people soft where we are hard, and
cynical where we are trustful.

II

1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. the age of reason = 7 years old; 13. to belittle;
2. crisp; 14. to mistake smth for smth;
3. to be peculiar to smb; 15. conventional;
4. to be superior to smb ; 16. to get smb out of trouble;
5. to grow up into a successful man; 17. to be convivial, robusty avid for
6. to keep an eye on smb; pleasure;
7. far out the reach of smb’s voice; 18. to give way to smth;
8. deference; 19. a contemporary ;
9. to disdain; 20. to resent;
10. to struggle for precedence; 21. to be engrossed in the dialogue;
11. to be paid to smb; 22. to despise.
12. to keep smb from smth;

2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.
Glide, fashionable, superior, concentration, deference, vaguely,
sufficient, shift, irreproachable, enormously, gradually.

3.Answer the following questions.
1. What was Anson’s family background?
2. When did Anson’s first sense of superiority come to him?
3. Why did he desdain to struggle with other boys for precedence?
4. What was people’s attitude to Anson?
5. What were Anson’s aspirations?
6. What attracted Anson in Paula?
7. Why was their love like a sort of hypnosis?
8. In what way did Anson and Paula spend their free time?
9. What did they agree to do?

4.Which sentences are true?
1. Anson inherited a fortune of fifteen million dollars.