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Answer any ONE of the following extracts in 450-500 wordsEXTRACT 1THE FURNISHED ROOM-O HENRY

The young man sat down in a chair, while the room tried to tell him its history. The words it used were strange, not easy to understand, as if they were words of many distant foreign countriesThere was a floor covering of many colors, like an island of flowers in the middle of the room. Dust lay all around itThere was bright wall-paper on the wall. There was a fireplace. On the wall above it, some bright pieces of cloth were hanging. Perhaps they had been put there to add beauty to the room. This they did not do. And the pictures on the walls were pictures the young man had seen a hundred times before in other furnished roomsHere and there around the room were small objects forgotten by others who had used the room. There were pictures of theater people, something to hold flowers, but nothing valuableOne by one the little signs grew clear. They showed the young man the others who had lived there before himIn front of the looking-glass there was a thin spot in the floor covering. That told him that women had been in the roomSmall finger marks on the wall told of children, trying to feel their way to sun and airA larger spot on the wall made him think of someone, in anger, throwing something there.Across the looking- glass, some person had written the name, “Marie.”It seemed to him that those who had lived in the furnished room had been angry with it and had done all they could to hurt it. Perhaps their anger had been caused by the room’s brightness and its coldness. For there was no true warmth in the room.There were cuts and holes in the chairs and in the walls. The bed was half broken. The floor cried out as if in pain when it was walked onPeople for a time had called this room “home,” and yet they had hurt it. This was a fact not easy to believe. But perhaps it was, strangely, a deep love of home that was the cause. The people who had lived in the room perhaps never knew what a real home was. But they knew that this room was not a home. Therefore their deep anger rose up and made them strike out.The young man in the chair allowed these thoughts to move one by one, softly, through his mind.At the same time, sounds and smells from other furnished rooms came into his room. He heard someone laughing, laughing in a manner that was neither happy nor pleasant. From other rooms he heard a woman talking too loudly; and he heard people playing games for money; and he heard a woman singing to a baby, and he heard someone weeping. Above him there was music. Doors opened and closed. The trains outside rushed noisily past. Some animal cried out in the night outside.And the young man felt the breath of the house. It had a smell that was more than bad; it seemed cold and sick and old and dying

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A 7 meter line marks the spot for penalty shots. Penalties follow fouls committed on players who have a clear shooting chance on goal. In standard measurement of handball field dimensions there is a 9 meter line.