Answer: b It shows that growing up is very much different from getting older, and Hood states that in his last few lines, "it was childish ignorance" shows that he has grown older, but still retains all the childish idealism in hoping to become a boy again. Practicing for exam... :)
Explanation:
<span>Superstitious people might do many odd things because they believe in luck, or bad luck. So, they may retrace their steps if a black cat crosses their path, they may not want to walk under a ladder because it is sad to bring bad luck, they may be scared when their mirror cracks because it is believed to bring 7 years of bad luck. They may do many things to get out of a possible bad situation, or induce a good thing to happen to them.</span>
Answer:
defeated
Explanation:
The sentence is talking about competition between two teams hence only two words can suitably answer the question, victory and defeat.
Since the sentence says about last year winner and speaker tries to express some accomplishment by laying emphasis on winner adjective for opponent. It clearly suggest that they got better of a competitive team.
Hence defeated is the most suitable answer to this question.
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Answer:
Although the story is not at all serious because of how it is written, the background, the topic of the story is really serious. It's about consumerism and it's set in a future where humans have destroyed the Earth and the people that survived leave the Earth to live somewhere else. The topic is serious because nowadays we keep discussing the consequences of global warming and consumerism. However, the story is also told in an ironically way, it's about how thousands of years later everyone finds the Earth boring and they only visit the Gift Shop. I believe the author choose to do both because it's not hard to recognize that we, as a society, have similar behaviors as the ones descripted in the story.
Explanation:
To complete this exercise, you have to read the story <u>Earth (A gift shop)</u> written by Charles Yu and then answer the questions. The story is about a gift shop on the Earth that people visit to buy a souvenir and how they tried to do a museum to show things from the Earth but people who visited found it boring. It's a futuristic story about human behaviors that led to the destruction of the Earth.
