"Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." This evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. It tells us that it was before WW1 on Thanksgiving.
Yes, the ton of the excerpt is definitely enthusiastic and optimistic. Your answer is most likely correct.
About half the world's population (some 3 billion people) speak a language that belongs to the Indo-European language family. The total number of languages and dialects in this family is estimated to be about 439. They include <span>most of the major </span>languages<span> of </span>Europe<span> and western </span>Asia.
English is one of those languages and it is spoken by an estimated 1.5 billion<span> people -- one-fifth of the world's entire population. However, most people who speak English have learned it as a second language. About </span>360 million people speak it as their first language<span>.</span>
The answer is D) employee.
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