Read the following argument made by a speaker at a parent-teacher conference: i'm a bank manager and parent of two high school students, so i know just how important financial literacy is for teenagers. college students today are graduating with an average student debt of $24,800, yet only 1 in 5 high schools nationwide are providing any type of financial education. it's time for springville high to start offering its students financial education that is personal, practical, and principled. which is the most effective characteristic of this argument? a. the use of repeating sounds to make the final point more memorable b. the use of stories to listeners understand his or her overall point c. the use of emotion to evoke sympathy from listeners about students d. the use of expert opinion to give the paragraph some additional authority

C

Explanation: "I'm a bank manager and parent of two high school students, so I know just how important financial literacy is for teenagers.". The speaker is connecting with the audience. Assuming that the audience are a group of parents, the speaker is sympathizing with the audience, evoking sympathy from the listeners about students.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

5

explanation: 4