This question is missing the previous part of the excerpt and the answer options. I have found the complete question online. The part that you already posted will be omitted, replaced with . . .
Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's "Freakonomics":
In the real world, Feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. He came to consider a company as "honest" if its payment rate was above 90 percent. He considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent "annoying but tolerable." If a company habitually paid below 80 percent, Feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one:
. . .
A. a claim
B. an example
C. a conclusion
D. a counterclaim
Answer:
The excerpt serves a:
B. an example
Explanation:
The excerpt in the question serves as an example for the passage posted above.
Feldman is a man who leaves baskets with bagels at companies for people to take them and pay for them. He does not stay at the company, however, to make sure people will pay. He would rather trust their honesty. But, if people begin to take the bagels without paying to the point where Feldman only makes between 80 to 90 percent of the money he should make, he leaves them a note.
When the authors talk about Feldman's note, the phrase "like this one" shows that the excerpt is an example of a type of note Feldman might use to increase payment by appealing to people's honesty.
Although Mccandless rejected the authority imposed on him by others, he takes an authoritarian stand on his own choices.
Explanation:
Chris Mcandless was a young man who abandoned social life to spend two years living in the jungle, with few resources, food and water. He took this action because he wanted to achieve definitive freedom, far from social rules and standards and economic and capitalist demands.
McCandless rejected the idea of authority, but he did not accept any advice and attempt to prevent that decision, behaving in an authoritarian manner and assuming the behavior that he rejected.
They symbolize hope within the novel. When Tom Robinson is on trial and is eventually killed, the children experience a loss of innocence which is later followed by a period of recovery, similar to that of the camellias. At first, Jem is extremely distraught by Robinson's death, thinking that the court would treat all men equal, but the children do not let that event make them think all of the world is evil and prejudiced and eventually heal, knowing that there will be evil in the world yet they can be the good in it. Jem, who is older than Scout, experiences a regrowing after Robinson's death which is juxtaposed against the camellias he destroyed earlier in the book. I hope my explanation helps! ^u^
"Environment": The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded (Merriam Webster)
"-al" means pertaining to
so environmental means: Pertaining to the circumstances, objects or condition by which one is surrounded.
Answer:
There are several main criteria for determining whether a source is reliable or not.
1) Accuracy. Verify the information you already know against the information found in the source. Look also for disclaimers as to the accuracy of the content. You may also want to double-check the information against a source that you already know is trustworthy. Even though a source may use technical language, the content may be misleading.
