Read the following passage from a narrative text. “Mrs. Thomas said we’d be sharing this table,” Albert said gruffly, shoving my
books over and dropping his beside them. “I don’t care.” Think of the connotative meanings of the underlined words. What effect do they have on the passage? A. They emphasize the narrator’s lack of response to Albert’s gruffness. B. They emphasize Albert’s statement that he really does not care about where he is seated. C. They show that Albert doesn’t want to sit at the table, though he says he doesn’t care. D. They show that Mrs. Thomas was right in asking Albert to share a table with another student.
The answer is D. During the war many German colonies were seized by the British and French. The German colonies in the Pacific were taken by Japan. A lot of fighting would also take place in African colonies.
