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प्रश्न
Find in the poem lines that match the following. Read both one after the other.
He says cats are better.
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उत्तर
He says cats are better. - The rebel expresses a preference for cats.
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The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-----
Or better still, just don't install
The Idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
we've watched them gaping at the screen
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.
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Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
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Antonio: Ready, so please your grace.
Duke: I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Incapable of pity, void and empty
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