18.
Read the following extract from 'Ilard Times' written by Charles Dickens and
answer the questions that follows
He was a rich man hanker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. A big fou
man, with a stare, and a metallic Laugh. A man made out of a coane material, which
seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed
heall and forehead, swelled veins in his temples and such a strained skin to his face
that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading
appearance on him of being in listed like a balloon, and ready to start. A man whe
could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always
proclaiming through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance
and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility
A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr Bounderby
looked older, his seven or elght and forty might have had the seven or eight added to
it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied
he had talked it off, and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that
conclition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.
In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the bearthug,
warming himself before the firo, Mr Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs
Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday. He stood before the fire,
partly because it was a cool spring aftemoon, though the sun shone: partly because the
shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar partly
because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs
Gradgrind.
"I hadn't a shoe to my foot. As to a stocking. I didn't know such a thing by
name. I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty. That's the way I spent my
tenth birthday. Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch
(1) What is Mr. Bounderby ago?
(li) In the above passage, choose four words of phrases which suggest that Mr.
Bounderby is a very unpleasant man. Explain how the expressions give that
suggestion
(ii) Which line shows that Mr. Bounderby as a bully?
(iv) What kind of childhood did Mr. Bounderby hau?
5/6
(v) Choose two płuases or expressions from the passage that suggest that the authwis
making fun of Mr. Bounderby
of the biggest threats hunsans face in the 21 Century w sa
urgent
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18.
Read the following extract from 'Ilard Times' written by Charles Dickens and
answer the questions that follows
He was a rich man hanker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. A big fou
man, with a stare, and a metallic Laugh. A man made out of a coane material, which
seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed
heall and forehead, swelled veins in his temples and such a strained skin to his face
that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading
appearance on him of being in listed like a balloon, and ready to start. A man whe
could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always
proclaiming through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance
and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility
A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr Bounderby
looked older, his seven or elght and forty might have had the seven or eight added to
it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied
he had talked it off, and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that
conclition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.
In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the bearthug,
warming himself before the firo, Mr Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs
Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday. He stood before the fire,
partly because it was a cool spring aftemoon, though the sun shone: partly because the
shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar partly
because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs
Gradgrind.
"I hadn't a shoe to my foot. As to a stocking. I didn't know such a thing by
name. I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty. That's the way I spent my
tenth birthday. Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch
(1) What is Mr. Bounderby ago?
(li) In the above passage, choose four words of phrases which suggest that Mr.
Bounderby is a very unpleasant man. Explain how the expressions give that
suggestion
(ii) Which line shows that Mr. Bounderby as a bully?
(iv) What kind of childhood did Mr. Bounderby hau?
5/6
(v) Choose two płuases or expressions from the passage that suggest that the authwis
making fun of Mr. Bounderby
of the biggest threats hunsans face in the 21 Century w sa
urgent