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15.02.2016

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The most embarrassing moment of my sophomore year was how I earned my nick name, Crash. It all started right after school when I turned on to the busiest street by the school. First I pulled up right behind this truck at a stop sign. After a second, a fellow older student told me that I was really close and that I was going to hit the truck in front of me. At the moment I was trying to tell the kid whom I was giving a ride to, to get back in the car because he was hanging out of the window. Since I was distracted, I thought the long line of traffic had started to move, but it hadn’t. In the blink of an eye I hit the back of the truck in front of me. The devastation sunk in. I was so worried that I damaged the truck, but all that I did was scratch his bumper. Lucky for him! Then it was time to look at my car. My car was ruined. The hood was buckled, the front end was pushed back, and my headlights were broken. Humiliated and scared, I still had to drive my bashed -up car home. During School that year, I never did hear the end of what had happened that

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Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in

each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about

250 words each

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a) The most embarrassing moment of my sophomore year was how I earned my nick name,

Crash. It all started right after school when I turned on to the busiest street by the

school. First I pulled up right behind this truck at a stop sign. After a second, a fellow

older student told me that I was really close and that I was going to hit the truck in front

of me. At the moment I was trying to tell the kid whom I was giving a ride to, to get

back in the car because he was hanging out of the window. S

b) How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what

purpose he know not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper

reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people- first of all for those

upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent and then for

the many, unknown to us, to whose destines we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A

hundred times everyday I remind myself that my inner and outer life

c) Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a

dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet

dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his

time indoors watching television and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials,

especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials

has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most