The answer is: A. obsession
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In the excerpt from "Moby D*ck," by Herman Melville, the narrator describes Captain Ahab's determination and fixation to kill the whale that caught his leg. Thus, Ishmael mentions Ahab's upright posture, his coraugeous persistance, and devoted look towards a dangerous task like encountering the whale.
Rosetta Stone is used to teach languages
If you are doing the k12 test, your answer would be "Doing Poorly"
The test question:
What is the connotative meaning of the word stupid as used in this sentence from "An Hour with Abuelo"?
I'm going stupid in some of my classes, and Mr. Williams, the principal at Central, said that if I passed some reading tests, he'd let me move up.
doing poorly
acting foolish
lacking intelligence
losing interest
Answer: B. A sumo wrestler near the top of the elite pyramid may earn millions of dollars.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics we can see the explanation of how the ranking in sumo wrestling works, and how there is an elite pyramid of the sixty-six highest-ranked wrestlers in Japan who are treated like royalty and may earn millions of dollars a year, while the wrestlers that aren't in the elite are treated like servants by their superiors, this situation might incentive a sumo wrestler to cheat.
