Question

Read the sentences and answer the question that follows:

I stared at the mountain of homework on my desk. It would take me a million years to complete all these assignments!

Why does the narrator use the phrase a million years in this text?

To explain why she had waited so long to begin working on her homework

To give an approximate amount of time over which her homework increased

To playfully exaggerate the time needed to complete her homework

To provide a literal prediction of the time required to do the assignments

Answer 1

@Brainybeauty

Answer 2

C is the correct answer

Answer 3

Read the following sentence and answer the question that follows:

The garden was untended and overgrown with weeds and dying plants.

Which sentence best continues the description above?

I could smell the fresh flowers as I gazed upon it.

Its orderly rows showed the care that it enjoyed.

Rich, well-watered soil must lie beneath the lush array.

Fallen leaves and blossoms spread out from its borders.

Answer 4

"it would take me a million years to complete all these assignments" is a hyperbole aka an exaggeration

Answer 5

Option D

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure the correct answer is D

Answer 7

the sentence is negative and all the other choices are positive

Answer 8

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

from Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperor and his court, and indeed upon the army and people in general, that I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time. I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition. The natives came, by degrees, to be less apprehensive of any danger from me. I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair. I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the language. The emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for dexterity and magnificence. I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope-dancers, performed upon a slender white thread, extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground. Upon which I shall desire liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little.

Which quotation from the passage best sets out the main problem faced by the narrator?

"I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time."

"The natives came, by degrees, to be less apprehensive of any danger from me."

"I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the language."

"I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope-dancers."

Answer 9

I think it's A

Answer 10

what do you think brainybeauty?

Answer 11

100 pc sure it's A. His problem is of not getting free. He wanted liberty.

Answer 12

you guys are amazing! I have 4 more questions, I believe. can you still help me?

Answer 13

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

from Ragged wingspan By Horatio Alger

Getting up too was an equally short process. He jumped out of the box, shook himself, picked out one or two straws that had found their way into rents in his clothes, and, drawing a well-worn cap over his uncombed locks, he was all ready for the business of the day.

wingspan's appearance as he stood beside the box was rather peculiar. His pants were torn in several places, and had apparently belonged in the first instance to a boy two sizes larger than himself. He wore a vest, all the buttons of which were gone except two, out of which peeped a shirt which looked as if it had been worn a month. To complete his costume he wore a coat too long for him, dating back, if one might judge from its general appearance, to a remote antiquity.

Washing the face and hands is usually considered proper in commencing the day, but wingspan was above such refinement. He had no particular dislike to dirt, and did not think it necessary to remove several dark streaks on his face and hands. But in spite of his dirt and rags there was something about wingspan that was attractive. It was easy to see that if he had been clean and well dressed he would have been decidedly good-looking. Some of his companions were sly, and their faces inspired distrust; but wingspan had a frank, straight-forward manner that made him a favorite.

What makes this line from the passage ironic?

"Washing the face and hands is usually considered proper in commencing the day, but wingspan was above such refinement."

The obvious statement that washing the face and hands occurs every day

The disgusting fact that wingspan did not want to wash his face and hands every day

The humorous idea that wingspan really needs to wash but doesn’t think he does

The unstated reason why it is proper to wash your hands and face every day

Answer 14

It's D

Answer 15

The narrator was saying that. Wingspan believed that washing hands and face is not necessary.

Answer 16

Any more questions?

Answer 17

yes (:

Answer 18

@rosamartinez

Answer 19

k
go on

Answer 20

The early light of morning lay rosy red upon the mountains, and a fresh breeze rustled through the fir trees and set their ancient branches waving to and fro. The sound awoke Heidi and she opened her eyes. The roaring in the trees always stirred a strong emotion within her and seemed to draw her irresistibly to them. So she jumped out of bed and dressed herself as quickly as she could, but it took her some time even then, for she was careful now to be always clean and tidy.

When she went down her ladder she found her grandfather had already left the hut. He was standing outside looking at the sky and examining the landscape as he did every morning, to see what sort of weather it was going to be.

Little pink clouds were floating over the sky, that was growing brighter and bluer with every minute, while the heights and the meadow lands were turning gold under the rising sun, which was just appearing above the topmost peaks.

"O how beautiful! how beautiful! Good-morning, grandfather!" cried Heidi, running out.

"What, you are awake already, are you?" he answered, giving her a morning greeting.

Then Heidi ran round to the fir trees to enjoy the sound she loved so well, and with every fresh gust of wind which came roaring through their branches she gave a fresh jump and cry of delight.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows:

Little pink clouds were floating over the sky, that was growing brighter and bluer with every minute, while the heights and the meadow lands were turning gold under the rising sun, which was just appearing above the topmost peaks.

"O how beautiful! how beautiful! Good-morning, grandfather!" cried Heidi, running out.

Which of these is one of the main points the narrator is attempting to make in this passage?

Heidi's life on the mountains is new and frightening.

Heidi's life on the mountains makes her happy.

Heidi's life with her grandfather is boring.

Heidi's life with her grandfather is difficult.

Heidi’s life with her grandfather is fast-paced

Answer 21

@Brainybeauty @jgirl128

Answer 22

sorry, I lost connection!

Answer 23

B) She's happy because she loves the beautiful mountains.

Answer 24

:)

Answer 25

In this speech Roosevelt termed, for the first time, journalists as muckrakers.

Muck-rake- n. A rake for scraping up muck or dung

Muckrake- v. To search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.

In Pilgrim's Progress the Man with the Muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.

There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. . . To assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

Roosevelt is warning against the misery misguided information and laughter at another’s expense will cause. Roosevelt's role in the speech is most similar to that of a

father to his children

journalist in an expose

preacher in the pulpit

teacher in front of his class

Answer 26

Journalist in an expose. Because he is pointing out the bad things. He wouldn't use these words in front of a class or his children or as a preacher in a pulpit.

Answer 27

Any more?

Answer 28

In this speech Roosevelt termed, for the first time, journalists as muckrakers.

Muck-rake- n. A rake for scraping up muck or dung

Muckrake- v. To search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.

In Pilgrim's Progress the Man with the Muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.

There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. . . To assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

Bene is a Latin root meaning good or well. In the line, "I hail as a benefactor...every man who...makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful," what does the word benefactor suggest about Roosevelt's position on ethical journalism?

He condemns it

He enjoys it

He is indifferent to it

He supports it

Answer 29

I have 2 more left after this one

Answer 30

He supports ethical journalism but condemns the kind of journalism we see these days

Answer 31

In this speech Roosevelt termed, for the first time, journalists as muckrakers.

Muck-rake- n. A rake for scraping up muck or dung

Muckrake- v. To search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.

In Pilgrim's Progress the Man with the Muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.

There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. . . To assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

In this speech Roosevelt is advising journalists to write honestly and not always muckrake.

Which phrase makes it clear that Roosevelt is aiming his argument at journalists?

"the body politic, economic and social"

"every evil man whether politician or business man"

"every writer or speaker. . .in book, magazine, or newspaper"

"every good patriot. . .every good American"

Answer 32

Music and sound effects in film can influence the mood of the audience. It can create a sense of doom while the lack of music can create a feeling of realism.

What type of sound effect would foreshadow a dark event?

Birds chirping

Children singing

Door creaking

Waves lapping

Answer 33

The early light of morning lay rosy red upon the mountains, and a fresh breeze rustled through the fir trees and set their ancient branches waving to and fro. The sound awoke Heidi and she opened her eyes. The roaring in the trees always stirred a strong emotion within her and seemed to draw her irresistibly to them. So she jumped out of bed and dressed herself as quickly as she could, but it took her some time even then, for she was careful now to be always clean and tidy.

When she went down her ladder she found her grandfather had already left the hut. He was standing outside looking at the sky and examining the landscape as he did every morning, to see what sort of weather it was going to be.

Little pink clouds were floating over the sky, that was growing brighter and bluer with every minute, while the heights and the meadow lands were turning gold under the rising sun, which was just appearing above the topmost peaks.

"O how beautiful! how beautiful! Good-morning, grandfather!" cried Heidi, running out.

"What, you are awake already, are you?" he answered, giving her a morning greeting.

Then Heidi ran round to the fir trees to enjoy the sound she loved so well, and with every fresh gust of wind which came roaring through their branches she gave a fresh jump and cry of delight.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows:

The early light of morning lay rosy red upon the mountains, and a fresh breeze rustled through the fir trees and set their ancient branches waving to and fro. The sound awoke Heidi and she opened her eyes. The roaring in the trees always stirred a strong emotion within her and seemed to draw her irresistibly to them. So she jumped out of bed and dressed herself as quickly as she could, but it took her some time even then, for she was careful now to be always clean and tidy.

Which of these phrases from the passage most directly indicates a recent influence on Heidi's life?

"always stirred a strong emotion within her"

"draw her irresistibly to them"

"dressed herself as quickly as she could"

"she was careful now to be always clean and tidy"

Answer 34

I would suggest to please ask one question per thread.

Answer 35

Bye ... !

Answer 36

Option D.

Answer 37

Because the question asks about a recent influence and the fourth sentence has the word "now".

Answer 38

for the first one? @Brainybeauty

Answer 39

or the last one..

Answer 40

The last one

Answer 41

thank you. and the other 2?

Answer 42

The one before this is C) Doors creaking

Answer 43

And the first one is "every writer or speaker. . .in book, magazine, or newspaper"

Answer 44

And one more thing. I got one answer wrong

Answer 45

Roosevelt is not a journalist in an expose but a preacher in a pulpit

Answer 46

@rosamartinez

Answer 47

k?

Answer 48

the very last question you asked is "D" ..."she was careful now to be always to clean and tidy"