The answer is C to define or clarify a term within a text. For example ‘me and my cousin (Bob) went to the shops.’ The bracket helps me understand what the cousin is.
Answer:
B). "He found that children and adults who have read stories their whole lives were more likely to correctly identify the feelings and thoughts of others than those who do not read regularly."
C). "Trying to understand these characters exercises the same mental muscle that helps us understand people in the real world."
Explanation:
The above two evidence factually support and substantiate the claim that 'people who read stories are better at communicating and understanding the feelings of others.'
The first evidence i.e. option B states that <u>the research revealed 'the children or adults who have been reading stories constantly their whole lives are able to recognize the thoughts or feelings of others more accurately' while the second evidence i.e. option C asserts logically that 'in attempt to understand the characters of stories, the same mental muscle is required for understanding people in real life.'</u>
Thus, these two pieces of evidence not only support but substantiates how reading comprehends our understanding of thoughts, opinions, or feelings of others. Hence, <u>options B and C</u> are the correct answers.
<span> Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize recipient and physics professor at the Sorbonne (a college of the University of Paris), presented this speech at Vassar College in Housekeeping, New York, on May 14, 1921. The speech, preserved in print as no. 2 of Vassar's Ellen S. Richards Monographs series, centers on what Curie called "the somewhat peculiar conditions of the discovery of radium" and her view that "the scientific history of radium is beautiful." The speech is provided online at the Gifts of Speech Web site, by Liz Linton, site director; and electronic resources and serials librarian in Cochran Library, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.</span>
Well, the excerpt itself states the possible topic numerous times throughout the passage - it should be loneliness.
The author states how lonely this young girl is, so lonely that she cannot even speak because of the fact that she is missing someone next to her. She doesn't want to be alone anymore because it is breaking her heart, and this is the feeling that the excerpt conveys.
