Answer:
A hpothesis is a scientific guess at the beginning of an experiment or research. Then you do more research and it might change.
Answer:
1. a bit of
2. A few
3. some/ a lot of
4. more
5. any
Explanation:
1. I am having a bit of trouble passing my driving exam.
2. A few people can afford a home these days.
3. You have some/ a lot of patience.
4. She earns more money than I do.
5. I didn't use any fertilizer last spring.
The answer is repair because repairs would be in a sentence like we made 15 repairs in one day.
I believe that your answer is the first option due to how late the crying is, and unlike in "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the heart is constant and represents the slow descent of madness, the cry of the cat only appears at the end.
The portion of the story where it shows the speaker's madness is actually his looking for and finding similarities in the second cat and wishing to kill it.
Hope this was helpful.