In this excerpt the narrator is complaining about the way achievement test are and how up to that they measure someone’s knowledge. He uses the word bland to describe the right answer of this kind of tests which it means „lacking a strong or particular flavor; not interesting”, in this context can be used describing it as non-sense or not obvious answers. He also complains about how bad he is in this because he cannot find the logic in the answers. With this explained, we can infer that the right answer is D Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability, because he kind of argues that the answers are not "valid" to measure it.
Answer:
All of the cherries on her tree were eaten by the crow.
Explanation:
When using passive voice, the receiver of the action typically goes first and then the doer of the action is after it, as opposed to active voice when the doer of the action is first and then the receiver is afterwards. So, the receiver of the action is the cherries on the tree and the doer, or the thing that ate the cherries, is the crow.
Flat: described by one or two traits
Static: doesn't change from the beginning of the story to the end
Dynamic: a character that develops throughout the story
Round: complex and fully developed character
B, it's explaining that avoiding it can be difficult and can put pressure of people bc they don't actually know when it's going to be there