Submit Tes I Next Matching Tone to an Audience: Mastery Test Select the correct text in the passage. Which sentence reveals the author's point of view in the passage? Learning to ski when you're an adult can be difficult. And if you are the kind of person who is easily embarrassed, then skiing may not be the sport for you. But you can avoid embarrassment when learning how to ski as an adult and reap great rewards of a fun activity. First, rent short skis. They will save you from wiping out on your first days on the mountain. Next, take lessons from a certified professional at a ski school. You may think you can just watch other people ski and do what they do, but taking lessons will teach you how to ski correctly. Now, here's a plece of wisdom for you: you are going to fall-not once, but many times. The best thing you can do to save face when it happens is to laugh it off and get back up. You could even pretend that you meant to fall down. Whatever you do, don't whine about how sore you are or what a big bruise you'll have tomorrow. Skiers are a tough bunch, and you want people to know you're serious about becoming one. Reset Next

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

For frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852)1) does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. 2) how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer

Asentence teacher gives the following speech. prepare a brief speech to accompany your science project. the speech will be presented to a faculty panel selected as judges. include a summary of your hypothesis, methods, and results. provide an explanation of any pictures or charts one of your poster. also share any complications you encountered during the science fair process. who is the intended audience for the teachers speech? a. young students. b. peers at the science fair. c. teacher evaluators. d. science professionals