Answer:
A. Make sure you cite a reliable source.
Explanation:
B. There are many unreliable materials that could be simply "printed". Being printed does not show reliability.
C. Since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone may find it untrustable to use.
D. Many .com websites can be a fake commericial website that has "fake" news.
Therefore A is the best choice for quoting a statistic. Citing from a reliable source will allow for trustability to be gained by the readers for your work.
Answer:
the passengers and Twain perceive the river in very different ways.
Explanation:
Right after it, Twain continues: <em>"Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition."</em>
He sees the river in a different way and much is to be told from what the river shows, it seems, but passengers are not able to see what he sees because they do not share the same knowledge.
Positive qualities and actions are associated with him in these lines, such as "cleaned them of evil" and "saved it from violence". These qualities and actions indicate a heroic nature.
