COMPLETE THE STATEMENTS CORRECTY
5. When deciding whether to use competition as a means of motivating people, it is important to consider that
(A) the most effective kind of competition is competition between groups.
(B) competition can promote feelings of hostility.
(C) competition is useful for reaching any goals we may have.
9. As a result of his experiments, LP. Pavlov discovered that once we have learned a particular response to a stimulus,
(A) we cannot learn to respond in the same way to a different stimulus.
(B) we can learn to respond in the same way to a different stimulus.
(C) we quickly lose interest in the stimulus.
10. As a result of the experiments conducted by B.F. Skinner and others, psychologists learned tha teachers could encourage behavior such as throwing waste paper in a trash basket
(A) by responding positively to students when they throw waste paper in the trash basket.
(B) by telling students how important it is to throw their waste paper in the trash basket.
(C) by not making a big deal out of using the trash basket.
Answer:
The words from the excerpt that best help the reader determine a tone of distress are:
B. "sob," "groped," and "dragging"
Explanation:
<u>Tone is conveyed through word choice, in literature. It helps readers understand what the narrator and/or other characters are feeling, or what the situation is supposed to inspire in readers. </u>The only way for the author to convey such sensations and emotions is by choosing words that are connected to them.
<u>In the passage we are analyzing here, the words "sob," "groped," and "dragging" convey distress. Distress means extreme anxiety or extreme sorrow, suffering, affliction. A person who is not feeling anxious, sad, or suffering is not likely to sob, to grope, or to drag.</u> Lighter words would be used to describe them. <u>Now, if people drag their feet and grope around while sobbing, we can sense they are distressed.</u>
