问题 复合句变简单句的填空题

I told him how I had fought to hold on to the company.(变为简单句，每空填一词)I told him _______ _______ _______ to hold on to the company.

问题 为什么会出现whether there was not...？ 这里的not是否多余？

I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action...

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话题 I work

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