Question

That evening, after I’d finished the rest of my homework, the note about the essay
caught my eye. I began thinking about the subject while chewing the tip of my
fountain pen. Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words,
but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of
talking. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea,: I wrote the three pages
Mr. Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. I argued that talking is a student’s
trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never
be able to cure myself of the habit since my mother talked as much as I did if not
more, and that there’s not much you can do about inherited traits.
(a) What is the main feature of an essay according to Anne?
(b) What did Anne argue in the essay? Why?
(c) What does the idiom ‘caught my eye’ means?
(d) What do you understand by inherited traits?

Answer 1

(a) The main feature of an essay is to give convincing arguments in support of the necessity to talk.

(b) Anne argued that talking was a students trait and she got it from her mother so nothing could do about this inherited trait.

(c) An inherited trait is one that is genetically determined. Inherited traits are passed from parent to offspring according to the rules of Mendelian genetics. Most traits are not strictly determined by genes, but rather are influenced by both genes and environment.

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