1 - B) <span>All this [destruction] is happening before our eyes</span>2
2 - C) I wonder if they will even exist for my children
3 - A) we all share the same air, water, and soil
4 - C) a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers.
The author's purpose in including the first paragraph of the selection is, to show the reader how music formats have changed over time.
Answer: Option B.
Explanation:
The passage ‘Music in the Digital Age’ by McCaul is an eye opening passage which describes very valuable information regarding music and music players. If we have a look at the first paragraph, we would notice that McCaul have illustrated the changes that occurred in music format over time.
The line ‘Things have changed since then. People can now carry tiny devices containing thousands of songs’ clearly states how the author is describing the ‘then and now’ of the music. The other paragraph on the other hand describes the disadvantages of MP3s.
Answer:
The overall mood of the poem is bleak more so in the beginning, yet strangely enough, it progresses to become somewhat comedic and high energy. The narrator uses exclamation points, and has one line stanzas to affirm what happened and their mood such as: "But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!" as well as "Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!" Near the end of the poem, the author knows that they are still going to feel depressed and cry sometimes, they'll be "dogged" which means they will persist through the hardship of their depression.
Explanation:
The correct option is CHINESE.
Chinese is the most spoken language in the world and it always comes on top of the list of the most common languages in the world. Although the language has many dialects, but put together, about 1.2 billion native speakers speak Chinese language. Mandarin is the most common dialect of the Chinese language.
Answer:
Explanation:
This is a story written by Padma Venkatraman’s that tells the story of four Indian girls who live on the streets of Chennai. One of the main characters is an eleven year-old girl who writes for her older sister. Her older sister has a disablity. The two girls had to run away because they were suffering because of their father's mistreatment. The two girls meet two other girls who live on the streets. Now the four girls are like a family.
They go to live on a bridge
The children go to live on an abandoned bridge, surrounded by garbage, glass and metal. They try to make this place a home with some objects, but they have to leave the bridge and go to a cemetery.
