Answer:
C
Explanation:
expediency def: the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience
It doesn't make since with the sentence
Answer:
c. Sitting in the cockpit of a commercial airplane.
Explanation:
The National Geographic magazine article "Barrington Irving, Pilot and Educator" narrates how Barrington Irving became a pilot. Irving would become the first and youngest African American to be a pilot and fly solo around the world.
Irving had never thought of becoming a pilot at first. As he admitted, <em>"I didn’t think I was smart enough"</em>, Irving never thought about his future in the aviation scene. He was just helping out his parents at their bookstore. It was there that a chance encounter, a chance question by <em>"a Jamaican-born professional pilot"</em> and the chance to sit at the cockpit of a commercial airplane that <em>"hooked"</em> Irving to flying.
Thus, the correct answer is option c.
Prereading, Reading, and Review
Answer:
An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language".
Explanation:
