I think the answer is B.) "Okay, Becky, let's assume for a moment you fail this test again. What is the worst thing that could happen?"
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Explanation:
THE AMAZON ECHO can seem like your best friend---until it betrays you. That's because this device is different from anything else in your house. Alexa, the voice assistant that powers Echo and more, is always listening, sending what you say after using a "wake" word to Amazon's servers. Of course, Echo isn't the only voice-assistant speaker on the market, but it sits in millions of homes, and Alexa is headed to devices from companies like Ford, Dish, Samsung, and Whirlpool.
Answer:
The correct answer is <u>A</u>: “And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.”
Explanation:
In this excerpt, the only event which doesn't exemplify the short story's dark tone is the first option. As we can notice, in all the examples we have some words which are suggesting to something dark and negative, as, for example, <em>murder, painful death, giving up.</em>
In the first sentence, we cannot notice the dark tone because the author uses some positive and pleasant words, as for example, little Davy, a few pebbles, so we can see that he/she is describing a child with some pebbles.
avoid surrounding overly emotional