Hi, you've asked an incomplete question. The remaining part of the question reads;
the first paragraph;
<em>I spent my teens and much of my twenties collecting printed rejections. Early on, my mother lost $61.20—a reading fee charged by a so-called agent to look at one of my unpublished stories. No one had told us that agents weren’t supposed to get any money upfront, weren’t supposed to be paid until they sold your work. Then they were to take ten percent of whatever the work earned. Ignorance is expensive. That $61.20 was more money back then than my mother paid for a month’s rent.</em>
The last sentence of the first paragraph (“That . . . month’s rent”) primarily serves to
A. <em>justify an action by invoking an ethical principle</em>
B. clarify a point by defining an ambiguous term
C. show how anecdotal evidence supports a claim
<em>D. provide meaningful context for a revealing statistic</em>
<em>E. demonstrate that a common practice has harmful effect</em>
Answer:
<u><em>D. provide a meaningful context for a revealing statistic</em></u>
Explanation:
By saying, "<em>That $61.20 was more money back then than my mother paid for a month’s rent" </em>the narrator had revealed a very interesting statistic about the value of money back then.
In other words, the context surrounding the statement helps the average reader quickly understand that a month's rent used to be <em>lesser</em> than $61.20; very interesting statistics at that.
Answer:
A. Keep it, because it uses descriptive language to convey the writer’s perspective on advances in robotics and set up the topic of the passage.
Explanation:
Answer A
Correct. The underlined text uses descriptive adjectives and adverbs to describe today’s robots and the way they interact with humans. This descriptive language helps to convey the writer’s perspective on advances in robotics and also sets up the topic of the passage, which is how humans and robots interact. Therefore, the writer should keep the underlined text.
The draw back would be that many crimes would go unpunished. Some victims could be to scared, some would prefer to forget about the crime and focus on other things in their lives.
