Television changed my family forever. (2) we stopped eating dinner at the dining-room table after my mother found out about tv trays. (3) we kept the tv trays behind the kitchen door and served ourselves from pots on the stove. (4) setting and clearing the dining-room table used to be my job; now, setting and clearing meant unfolding and wiping our tv trays, then, when we’d finished, wiping and folding our tv trays. (5) dinner was served in time for one program and finished in time for another. (6) during dinner we used to talk to one another. (7) now television talked to us. (8) if you had something you absolutely had to say, you waited until the commercial, which is, i suspect, where i learned to speak in thirty-second bursts. (9) as a future writer, it was good practice in editing my thoughts. (10) as a little girl, it was lonely as hell. (11) once in a while, i’d pass our dining-room table and stop, thinking i heard our ghosts sitting around talking to one another, saying stuff. source: move on,  an autobiographical book by linda ellerbee.. we can infer that in ellerbee’s homea. her mother was aware that ellerbee was unhappy with tv.  b. there were no other children for ellerbee to talk to.  c. watching tv became more important than talking and listening to family members.

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Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.