Question 1:
The mother's language in this passage of "Daughter of Invention,” by Julia Alvarez revelas that she is not a native English speaker, but someone that uses it as a second language and may not know the correct uses of some idioms and phrases.
Question 2:
The mother wants to express that she is proud of her daughter and believes that Yoyo will be famous and successful in her life.
Answer:
d. Backstage before an academic competition, one team captain
Byron, is meditating, while the other Mitch, is being rowdy and
interrupts Byron
Answer: b. About 15% of Chapel Hill’s undergraduates come from other countries.
Explanation:
This is based on text from "Brief History of Chapel Hill". Fifteen percent of Chapel Hill's undergraduates coming from other countries is quite a significant percentage and just proves that there are different nationalities in the town.
With that many foreigners in the university, there must surely be a significant number of other foreigners in the town because university populations have been known to be representative of their location.
