Select the correct answer.What theme is common to the two excerpts below? . . . His theory of running until he reached camp and the boys had one flaw in it: he lacked the endurance. Several times he stumbled, and finally he tottered, crumpled up, and fell. When he tried to rise, he failed. He must sit and rest, he decided, and next time he would merely walk and keep on going. As he sat and regained his breath, he noted that he was feeling quite warm and comfortable. He was not shivering, and it even seemed that a warm glow had come to his chest and trunk. And yet, when he touched his nose or cheeks, there was no sensation. Running would not thaw them out. Nor would it thaw out his hands and feet. Then the thought came to him that the frozen portions of his body must be extending. He tried to keep this thought down, to forget it, to think of something else; he was aware of the panicky feeling that it caused, and he was afraid of the panic. But the thought asserted itself, and persisted, until it produced a vision of his body totally frozen.(Jack London, To Build a Fire)Presently the boat also passed to the left of the correspondent with the captain clinging with one hand to the keel. He would have appeared like a man raising himself to look over a board fence, if it were not for the extraordinary gymnastics of the boat. The correspondent marvelled that the captain could still hold to it.They passed on, nearer to shore—the oiler, the cook, the captain—and following them went the water-jar, bouncing gayly over the seas.The correspondent remained in the grip of this strange new enemy—a current. The shore, with its white slope of sand and its green bluff, topped with little silent cottages, was spread like a picture before him. It was very near to him then, but he was impressed as one who in a gallery looks at a scene from Brittany or Algiers.He thought: "I am going to drown? Can it be possible? Can it be possible? Can it be possible?" Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."(Stephen Crane, The Open Boat) A. mysteries of life and death B. finding hope after tragedy C. humanity's helplessness against nature D. finding inner strength E. choosing between security and individualism

However, she faded at the sprint to the finish because she had neglected to train her Type muscle fibers.  As her muscles increasingly began to engage in more anaerobic respiration, her lack of strength in her or fiber type was most apparent.

He felt a sense of __________ when he completed the marathon.Question 1Answera.exhaustionb.accomplishmentc.failured.defeat

Which sentence from the story best demonstrates the theme?A. Aiden abhorred public speaking and by the sound of the grouses and moans in the classroom, he was not alone.B. And now, as he stood vacillating on the edge of the coarse, seasoned diving board, it evoked the feeling of gratification that overtook him after he delivered his speech that day.C. He eased backwards, and then taking a forward stride with his left foot, he bounced on the diving board, sprung into the air and, with arms flailing, he plunged into the sapphire water.D. You need to conquer your trepidations and believe in yourself.

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:As he walked along with the money in his pocket he felt quite pleased with his smartness.He realised, of course, that at first he dared not continue on the public highway, but mustturn off the road, into the woods. During the first hours this caused him no difficulty.Later in the day it became worse, for it was a big and confusing forest which he hadgotten into. He tried, to be sure, to walk in a definite direction, but the paths twisted backand forth so strangely! He walked and walked without coming to the end of the wood,and finally he realised that he had only been walking around in the same part of the forest.All at once he recalled his thoughts about the world and the rattrap. Now his own turnhad come.a) Why did ‘he’ feel quite pleased?i) for his smartness resulting in his favourii) for deceiving his own selfiii) for robbing in the shopkeeperFoe befooling his friendsb) Why did ‘he’ decide to turn off into the woods?i) to reach the destination in timeii) to complete a dare that he gave himselfiii) to show off his smartness and be pleasediv) to escape the police from following himc) ‘Now his own turn had come’, what does this statement reflect?i) He had found his way to his destinationii) He had cheated an old maniii) He had fallen prey to the rattrapiv) He felt guilty of of what he has doned) What did the peddler realise when he turned into the woods?e) Why did the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?

Q1.  Young athletes think of themselves as and they are not afraid of any challenges.    Q2.  They've got enough toys to keep these naughty kids out of for a while.    Q3.  Poor living conditions violence and despair.    Q4.  He got into all sorts of as a boy, but he has always landed on his feet.