Wild animals as viewed from a mountain camp-Camille Grant, October 2011 Through my binoculars, I viewed a group of wild animals in action. A pride of lions was sleeping when a small, yellow bus pulled up beside
them. Tourists on a safari were packed into the bus like sardines in a can. Armed with cameras, they invaded the lions' territory, hoping to
capture the perfect photograph. The crowd leaned out the windows, hooting and hollering until the lions awoke. When the lions moved away,
the bus rolled after them, relentlessly stalking the pride. One of the lions turned and roared to protect the young This was greeted with cheers
and a celebratory honk of the bus horn. The curious visitors observed the lions' routine for an hour before moving on. Leaving a doud of dust,
the bus headed away, taking the wild animals off to disturb someone else's home.
Review the following line from the text
The curious visitors observed the lions' routine for nearly an hour before moving on
To create a more negative connotation, the author could have replaced the word curious vith which of the following synoryms?
Nosy
Passive
Interested
Familiar

The nosy visitors observed the lions' routine for nearly an hour before moving on.

Explanation:

In this passage, we have a description of an average safari with a lot of tourists trying to capture the perfect photo, no matter what it takes. It is obvious that the lions are not a fan of it, as the people keep mingling around them, staring, making noise, etc, so it is almost like in a zoo. So, the author used the neutral word curious, while nosy, meaning being too much into others` business, is more suitable, but only if we want, like it is said, to create a more negative connotation.

the character has felt many emotions that are mainly focusing on negative emotions.

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.