Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. he worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all ycar looking forward to nice weather and long hot days. All of winter, with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach laying on the sand and soaking in the bright and burning sun. and then, summer comes, and it rams AS a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to erying. It wasn't fair. We suffered through months of school and miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather Any day that T could not spend at the beach or playing ball with my friends seemed like a punishment for somethingI didn't even do. On those rainy summer days. I had nothing to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child. so there was no one else to play with My father worked form home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since fie was technically at work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on television or any books thatI could find lying around. I'd crawl through the day and pray cach night that the rain would not be there the next day. As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. Wlhen you have to work every day, summer is not as eagerly anticipated. Mostly., the days run together, bleeding into each other so that they no longer seem like separate entities and instead feel like continuations of the same long day. Everything seems monotonous and dull and an ennui or listlessness kicks in. such a mindset nmakes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comer, I complain about how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which offers a reprieve admittedly one that is all too short from the torture of hot and humid days. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful and considerably cooler weather tomorroW. (a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted. (1) Monotonous (IT) Ennui (I) Torture. (b) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words. (1) Why does the author call the rainy days the worst days of any summer? (Il) What does the author mean by the phrase Dickensian orphan used in the passage? (111) How does the author feel about the changing seasons summer to winter and vice- versa? (iv) What does the author feel about the changing seasons summer to winter and vice-versa? (v) Based on the description of the climatie features given in this passage, identify the region to which the author belongs (c) In about 50 words, describe the author's childhood experience of summer rain. ​

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they do not get a long time off from work for the season