Answer:
C. “But today, more than 1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water."
Explanation:
Statistics has to do with numerical data
(A) Arrogance
The synonym of a word is a word with the same meaning. Effrontery means acting in a rude way, thus arrogance has the closest definition to effrontery and is the synonym.
Answer:The speaker describes the flowers as beautiful but also describes them as caged and plucked by people. He knows that they're the preferred option, but he'd rather be free as a weed than be wanted as a flower.
Explanation:
The flower and the weed symbolize two different lives and ways of being treated the speaker could choose, but he'd rather be free and alone than have a life a certain way.
Answer: The exposition of the story is presented in the lines; "There was once a Parsee living on an uninhabited island in the Red Sea, with a shiny hat, a knife, and a cooking-stove."
Explanation: A narrative exposition is the introduction of a character's background, the environment, or past events that preceded the story. In this tale, the exposition of the story is at the beginning. You learn that a Parsee was living in an uninhabited island and that he had a knife and a cooking stove. This is important later on in the story, since that man bakes cakes, and puts crumbs from previous ones on the Rhino's skin, to then make him rub everywhere and have wrinkles on it.
