Which of the following selections best expresses the narrator’s fears in the following passage? we have received vague rumors about the expected rush here in the spring and we all wonder whether there will be such an enormous crowd as reported. what under the sun they will do is more than any of us can tell. everything in the country is staked and there certainly won’t be employment for all hands, as there is not enough for those here already. men are busily engaged on schemes to fleece the unsuspecting cheecakos out of their tenderfoot money, and i’m afraid many of them will work. perhaps the name cheecako is not understood by some in denver, but it is the saguache name for greenhorn, or newcomer. we “old-timers” are called “sour doughs,” as it is supposed to be part of our education to know how to make sour dough bread. a. the narrator is afraid that newcomers will take gold from those who’ve been there. b. the narrator fears that “old-timers” will eventually be forced out. c. the narrator fears that men who’ve been in the klondike for a while will con the newcomers out of their money. d. the narrator worries that newcomers won’t get along well with the “old-timers.”

During which stage of the listening process would you pay close attention to verbal and nonverbal signals? taking notes evaluation active involvement preparation

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

What task did the surveyors do? a. they studied the landscape to determine the most direct route for building a road. b. they designed treadmills that lifted blocks of stone to where they were needed. c. they dug trenches and filled them with sand, concrete, and large blocks to form a road.