Read the following comprehensive passage and answer the questions below:
Socrates believed that an angry man was more of a beast than human being. He had a wife who used to lose her temper on the slightest excuse and tried her utmost to irritate Socrates. One day the woman became more furious than ever and began to insult Socrates. He went out and sat on the door step of his house looking out on the public street. The wife finding that he was not paying the least heed to her, went up to him and poured much water over him. The passers-by in the street were much amused at the incident and Socrates joined with them in their laughter and quietly remarked, "I was expecting this ; after hundred comes rain."
a. What was the habit of Socrates' wife?
b. What did his wife do one day?
c. What did Socrates do then?
d. What was the result?
e. What was the remark passed by Socrates?

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- at stakepros and consthe patient (die) before the doctor cameI ( read) for three hours.
- "You've carried me a long way, how much pay you?". I said to the rickshaw puller."Anything is all right."
- Which spelling is incorrect ?
- Make sentence with the following: a) You should refrain------------b) The teacher made me --------------. c) Neither wealth nor ---------- lasts forever.d) Scientists are trying to --------- an inexpensive substitute for gasoline.
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- Die for :Pass over : Flesh and blood :
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- Now look at the opposition between pen and the sword from another point of view. The sword can only destroy; ideas also can destroy- the ideas of Bolshevism destroyed Czarism; the ideasof voltare and Rousseau destroyed the French, aristocracy. But ideas can also build, whereas the sword can only destroy. It is in fact the power of ideas which has brought us out of barbarism intosuch civilization as we have been above to achieve. "In what" asked Aristotle, "does man differ from the animal?" And answered, "It is by virtue of reason". The greatness of man consists in his thinking. The universe is vast, and man is tiny, but man has one advantage over the universe. He knows it is vast and he is tiny, but the universe does not. In this savage, the sense that it is to ideasand not to violence, to the pen and not to the sword, that man owes whatever had distinguished him from animals, whatever has enabled him to rise above purely savage condition. For the pen isthe vehicle of thought, and it is by thought that man is enabled to voyge through the infinite philosophy, to unlock the secrets of the universe, to create beauty and to commune with God.(b)In what according to Aristotle , does man differ form animals?
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- If I ______ Aladin's magic lamp, I ______ all the problems of our country.
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- The death of a queen in a good plot will be treated
- Choose the -correct sentence
- If Vertex: Pyramid then-
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- The essential part of a sentence is-
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- The meaning of 'encomium' is-
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- i) Apple of discord : iii) Condole with :v) First and foremost:
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- The feeling of having seen or experienced something before is called ______.
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