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2. Read the following passage carefully:
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demanded "Top, please." and his demand being refused, the liftman hurled the passenger out of the lift.
more sacred than any law enjoins us to be civil. The first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service.
Please' and 'Thank you! are the small change with which we pave our way as social beings. They are the little courtesies by
which we keep the machine of life oiled and running sweetly. They put our interaction upon the basis of a friendly co-
operation and easy give-and-take instead of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to
command when he can have the service for asking and have it with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment.
If bad manners are infectious, so also are good manners. If we encounter incivility most of us are apt to become
uncivil but it is an unusually uncouth person who can be disagreeable with sunny people. It is with manners as with
weather. "Nothing cheers up my spirits like a fine day," said Keats, and a cheerful person descends on even the gloomiest
of us with something of the benediction of a fine day.
It is a matter of general agreement that the war has had a chilling effect upon these little everyday civilities of
behaviour that sweeten the general air. We must get those civilities back if we are to make life kind and tolerable for each
other. We cannot get them back by invoking the law. The policeman is a necessary symbol and the law is a necessary
institution for a society that is still somewhat lower than the angels, but the law can only protect us against material
attack. Nor will the liftman's way of meeting moral affront by physical violence help us to restore the civilities
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1. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any four of the following questions in about 30-40 wards each:
(8 marks)
(a) How/Why was the young man fined ?
(6) What is first requirement of civility
(c) Little courtesies are important in life. How?
(d) Why does the author blame the war?
(e) What should be done to make life kind and tolerable?
The young liftman in a City office, who threw a passenger out of his lift the other morning and was fined for
offence was undoubtedly in the wrong. It was a question of Please'. The passenger, entering the lift said "Top'. The liftmai
While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say 'Please', there is a social practice much older and much​

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it took me 10 minutes to read all of this

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I have no explanation for this