Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
The answer is C: Republic. In the sixth century, Rome became a republic.
Philip Booth's poem First Lesson deals with a life lesson a father teaches to his young kid. The lesson that father teaches is how to float on one's back. Father tells that she is now sheltered, but what she has to do when he is not around. Therefore, he talks about the skills she must learn. The poem can be interpreted as a survival poem. The correct answer is A.
Fluent !! the boy wants to become fluent in spanish
