By roald dahl when i was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself. this is how i looked at the time. i had no brothers or sisters. so all through my boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there was just us two, my father and me. we lived in an old gypsy caravan behind a filling station. my father owned the filling station and the caravan and a small meadow behind, but that was about all he owned in the world. it was a very small filling station on a small country road surrounded by fields and woody hills. while i was still a baby, my father washed me and fed me and changed my diapers and did all the millions of other things a mother normally does for her child. that is not an easy task for a man, especially when he has to earn his living at the same time by repairing automobile engines and serving customers with gasoline. but my father didn't seem to mind. i think that all the love he had felt for my mother when she was alive he now lavished upon me. during my early years, i never had a moment's unhappiness or illness, and here i am on my fifth birthday. 1.how would the story be different if the audience could see the story through the father's point of view? the audience might get a better sense of how much the narrator seems to miss being raised by his mother. the audience would better understand that the passing of the narrator's mother does not affect his happiness. the audience might better understand what about the narrator's life makes it so happy and joyful. the audience would see whether or not the father truly enjoyed working at his job and raising the narrator.

Ineed . read this textbook passage. select the five (5) statements which are most logically supported by the given information. what would you do if you won ten million dollars in a lottery? your first reaction might be, “i’d spend the rest of my life on the beach (or skiing or traveling).” but in all likelihood you, like most other people who receive financial windfalls,would seek some kind of work eventually. a variety of motives keeps people working,even when they don’t need a paycheck to survive. if you’ve ever worked as a volunteer, you know that someone can be more satisfying than receiving pay. work also provides a sense of identity. one man aged 81 said, “i’ve been in the fabric business since i was a kid, and i still get a kick out of it." studies suggest that rats, pigeons, and children sometimes work to gain rewards,even if they can get the same rewards without working. one researcher wrote the following on the subject: rats will run down an alley tripping over hundreds of food pellets to obtain a single, identical pellet in the goal box, . . and pigeons will peck a key . . to get exactly the same food that is freely available in a nearby cup. given the choice of receiving marbles merely by waiting a certain amount of time for their delivery, children tend to prefer to press a lever . . to get the same marbles. 1. serving a purpose is satisfying. 2. it is not so lucky to win a large amount of money in a lottery. 3. endless “vacationing” eventually becomes dissatisfying. 4. the pay we receive is unimportant. 5. most people try to work as little as possible. 6. people, rats, and pigeons enjoy the challenges and interaction that work offers. 7. it generally feels better to achieve something than to be given something. 8. people who don’t retire continue to work only because they need the money. 9. most people who work as volunteers resent the fact that they are not paid for their work. 10. work can be its own reward.