Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
heyoooo!!!
revels authors attitude:
if only the sun would come out i wouldn't be looking at this miserable sky.
when will my grounding from tv end? sometime this year if we are lucky maybe?
the baseball rules are flawed and should be revised immediately.
the rest are on the other side.
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Explanation:
B: the subject's diary
all other sources are not primary, and therefore trash
D) Pedestal. A pedestal is the support of a statue or a vase, and of a column in architecture.
