Agood listener asks questions before agreeing or disagreeing with a speaker
in order to:
a. distract the speaker from making an argument.
b. make sure the speaker cannot present an argument.
c. verify her understanding of the speaker's point of view.
d. convince the speaker that his argument is wrong.
(apex)

c.

Explanation:

A good listener woukd want to have a background on the opposing argument, therefore, one would ask questions to gain understanding of the view.

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you didn't provide the passage.

explanation:

seeing as this is your first question on i can see why you may have not known that you need to provide the passage.

without the passage, or even the name of the passage, we can not read the passage, therefore we can not determine when or how the pacing effects the tone.

however, you can either repost this question (providing the passage this time)

or you can comment below what the passage is, and i'll you to the best of my ability!