This is a subjective question, so there are certainly no "right" answers. Here are some close-examination strategies:
- Read the text through quickly, and then re-read more slowly until you feel that you understand what the text's purpose is and how each sentence contributes to a greater understanding.
- Highlight key words or phrases that show what the text's theme/topic/focus is.
- Examine the way information is presented. Is it scholarly, humorous, uncertain, etc?
- Is the text part of a larger work? If so, why is this excerpt significant? If not, then why is it meaningful standing alone?
- Research the author/person who created the text. Find out what drove them to write it or what they were trying to do.
- Is there a specific audience that the text is intended for? This relates to prior questions, but you could go deeper as well and look at how the text makes you feel, or whether you have learned a new way of thinking about something.
You can learn a lot by examining a text from different perspectives, including the typical characteristics of-- who, what, when, where, why, how?
The answer is B. <span>The passage contains a fact that must be supported by evidence, the passage has no bias and this is the only answer that goes well with it</span>
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The narrator wants to see the "Evil Eye" once more before he kills the old man, but each night for the first week the old man is asleep when he sneaks into his room. Hope this helps! =)
<span>D. But we had not traveled fifty miles down the stream before we found the water gradually becoming brackish and discolored from the salt and</span>