A type of electoral system in which victory goes to the individual who gets the most votes in an election, but not necessarily a majority of the votes cast.
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
<em>[T]he Germans committed some blunders in the way they sent their secret radio messages, giving the British help in their task. The first mistake of German intelligence was the error of arrogance, believing that the British were not up to the challenge of deciphering their messages. Another mistake they made was sending duplicates and even triplicates of some of their messages, with each one using a different cipher key.</em>
Question: Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
Options:
- Critical
- Apologetic
- Objective
- Discouraged
Answer: The correct answer is: <u>Critical.</u>
Explanation: A critical tone is used to express an analysis of merits and faults of something or someone. The passage talks about The German's secret radio messages against the British. It expresses adverse and disapproving comments towards the Germans, by mentioning that The German intelligence was arrogant and that they committed terrible mistakes in the way they sent their secret radio messages.
The hyphen (dash) does not need to be placed anywhere in that particular sentence, but it can be placed between "inner" and "city". You do however require commas in the sentence; "Basketball, which has long been thought to be an inner city game, is extremely popular in the suburbs."
Hoodwinked means to deceive or trick (someone).
"The magician hoodwinked the crowd"
Answer:
From the book and the Graphic novel it can be said that he is a young man since he has only being working for the company five years but he is in debt with them, and all his family depends on him, they also have a photograph of him about his military service on the wall. In the graphic novel it seems to be older now that he has been 15 years in the company and maybe he started after military service
Explanation:
It can also be inferred the absurdity of the universe in which it doesn’t matter how good you are, for instance Gregor is a good man how has a job he dislikes just to cover his family expenses, and to pay his sister’s studies. It suggest the universe is an ungoverned place without any order of justice or punishment.
