Reflective essays explore what the author believes and the origins of those beliefs. Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Ta
n's "Mother Tongue" indicate where Tan’s beliefs came from? A)You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands.
B)She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease—all kinds of things I can't begin to understand.
C)Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother says.
D)Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. It's my mother tongue.
E)Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery.
F)That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.
B.) Spiders spin silk to weave their webs. When an insect encounters the silky thread, it might become the spider’s meal. Different sorts of spider spin different types of web.
Explanation:
This best encompasses the main idea of the three paragraphs without being too specific or vague.
It's B. Did she say, "Your mother called?" The "end mark" is always before the quotation marks. Yet, I have a feeling you know this already...just want to hurry and get this assessment done; right?
