This narrative describes a photo of a boy whose internal state is unclear to the narrator. Even without the shadow that partially obscures the child’s face, it would be difficult to read much into its full anonymous curves. The sun is directly overhead, so that the cap’s brim shadows most of his face. Only the eyebrows, cheeks, and nose catch the sun directly, making them appear touched with the dead white of clown’s paint. This, in turn, may lead us to see more sadness in the eyes than is really there, as though they have been baffled witnesses to some violent tableau. The chin is tucked downward so that the eyes must glance up to greet the camera, giving to the entire figure a quality of uncertainty, of barely contained fear. But perhaps he is only uncomfortable.8 Mark For Review8Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?A) It is to introduce the author’s change of attitude from criticism of the boy to sympathy. B) It is to suggest that the boy’s expression is open to interpretation. C) It is to express an opinion that is not supported by the scene. D) It is to furnish a clue to the author’s identity and relationship to the boy.

The following text is adapted from Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” This [wall]paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had! There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside-down. … I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. According to the text, what is true about the speaker?The speaker is being mocked by the wallpaper.eliminateThe speaker perceives the wallpaper as animated.eliminateThe speaker was entertained by the wallpaper as a child.eliminateThe speaker is afraid of the wallpaper.

The writer recalls his Grandmother as short, healthy and slightly bent. Her hairs were silver in colour and were scattered messily on her wrinkled face. She used to walk around the whole house in white clothes. She kept her one hand resting on her waist and the other hand was telling the beads of her rosary.The writer thinks of her as not very pretty but constantly beautiful all the time. He compares her calm face with the winter landscape. During their lengthy stay in the village, Grandmother woke him up from the bed in the early morning, plastered his wooden slate, organized his breakfast, and sent him to the school. The temple was connected to the school. She sat inside and studied the sacred texts while the children learned the alphabet.On their way back to the home she used to give the stale chapattis to the street dogs. A turning point in their beautiful relationship arrived when they went to live in a city. Despite the fact that they shared a room, their relationship started to grow apart. Now, the writer used to go to the city school on a school bus and studied subjects like English, Physics, mathematics and many more subjects that his grandmother could not understand at all.His grandmother could no longer go to school with him to send him. She felt upset that there was no teaching about God and scriptures at the city school. Instead, he was given music lessons, but she said nothing. She thought music was dreadful. It was just good for prostitutes and beggars, according to her. It was not intended for gentlemen.When the writer went to a university, he got a separate room in his house. The common link of the relationship between the grandson and the grandmother was broken now. Grandmother rarely talked to anyone in the house now. The writer’s grandmother quietly accepted her loneliness. She was constantly occupied with her spinning wheel and reciting prayers and she hardly ever spoke to anyone. She took a break in the afternoon. Her daily routine consisted of breaking bread into pieces and giving it to the birds. The birds would perch on her legs, head, and even her shoulders.When the writer was leaving on a trip abroad for his further studies, his grandmother did not get disturbed at all. Rather she went to the train station to say goodbye, but she didn’t say anything and merely kissed his forehead. Her lips were moving in prayer, her thoughts were consumed by prayer and her fingers were busy reciting the storey of the beads on her rosary. Seeing her grandmother at this old age, the writer was thinking that it might be his last meeting with his grandmother. But when he came back home after a duration of 5 years, his grandmother was there to welcome him back and he saw her celebrate his return.The next morning after the return of his grandson she got ill. Although the doctor told them that it was a slight fever and would go away very soon, still she could foresee that her time to leave this world was near. She did not want to waste her time talking to someone. Her fingers were busy reciting the storey of the beads on her rosary.She went to her bed praying and telling the beads till her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell down from her lifeless hand. Her body was discovered on the floor, wrapped in a red shawl after she died. To grieve her death, thousands of sparrows flew in and sat dispersed around her body. All the sparrows flew away without making any noise when the dead body of the old lady was carried away for the last rites.

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Analysing Facial ExpressionsSuppose you have sent an email to one of your subordinates asking him to send you a report urgently. You give him until the end of the day to send the report, but do not receive a response from him even after the day passes. The next day, you call him to your cabin and ask him for the report. In a surprised tone, he asks you, “Which report?”.He raises his eyebrows and they get drawn together. Horizontal wrinkles appear on his forehead and only the upper white portion of his eyeballs becomes visible.You check your mailbox to see if you had somehow missed sending him the email. The email is there in your ‘Sent’ box, and so you know that the communication was proper from your end.How should you respond in this situation? (Answer the question based on the concepts you learnt in the videos above.)Give him one more day to submit the report, as you can tell from his expression that he was genuinely surprised by the mention of the report and must have missed your email.✕ IncorrectFeedback:In the microexpression of surprise, both the upper and lower white portions of the eyeballs become visible. However, in this situation, only the upper white portion of your subordinate’s eyeballs is visible. Hence, this option is incorrect.Reprimand him for the missed deadline, because you know he is not telling the truth and has indeed received your email.Assign the task to someone else, as you can tell from his expression that he is extremely saddened by some event.Let him calm down first and then ask for the report because he seems quite angry.

In the following passage, the narrator reflects on his mother's character. Select the best evidence to support the statement "Photographs of the narrator's mother don't reflect her personality as he knew it." There may be more than one correct choice.She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as glossy and nervy and stylish as a racehorse. That exotic character unfortunately comes out a little too stark and unforgiving in photographs—her freckles covered with makeup, her hair pulled back in a ponytail at the nape of her neck like some nobleman in The Tale of Genji—and what doesn't come across at all is her warmth, her merry, unpredictable quality, which is what I loved about her most. It's clear, from the stillness she emanates in pictures, how much she mistrusted the camera; she gives off a watchful, tigerish air of steeling herself against attack.