Doctors warned people to stay away from the medical tent where patients were being treated in order to avoid contagion. This means to avoid the spread or transfer of diseases or infection. Contagion means the communication of illnesses from one person to another, most especially when in close contact.
I had begun by tracing the Japanese characters with a pencil.
*begun is a past participle
Answer:
Both affirm that ideas in the text have been proven by previous experience.
Explanation:
The author always tries to appeal audience with its artwork. Both the passages have similarities in their ending in a way that both the texts have proven past experience to affirm and back their ideas. This makes passage more appealing to the audience as the text is backed by some factual events.