The correct answer is B: It shows an instance in which someone with little mastery of a language nonetheless wisely and correctly recognizes that she is being taken advantage of.
This is so because the author has already confessed that she used to interpret her mother's limitation with the English language as a sign of intellectual limitation, and this anecdote proves how wrong she had been about it. The author's mother, recognizing how she was not only disregarded but also taken advantage of by native speakers, had her daughter pretend to be her on the phone in order to be taken seriously. In other words, the author's mother had no problem in understanding the intricacies of many situations presented to her in English (such as the workings of the stock market), but her lack of mastery in language production was often wrongly perceived as lack of understanding.
Explanation: Point of veiws
First person: I , me
Second person: you
Third person: He, she, it , they or a name
The type of evidence the author uses in this excerpt is statistical evidence. Mentioning that the 7-7 wrestlers win only 40 percent of the rematches, when they have for a fact won 50% of the time.
Statistical evidence is made with statistical methods used to increase the understanding of the facts, and the proof demonstrates the validity and logic of inference with explicit reference to a hypothesis, facts, tests and odds.
<span>They had been driven by storm to an island near the land of the cyclopes. The <span>next morning Odysseus decided to see what land that was. Nobody knew about the <span>cyclopes. To understand the Odyssey I recommend you read it. </span></span></span>
The answer is a. All you have to do is place the word in and see if it sounds right.
