HELP ASAP! Today, more than 50 years later, nearly two million people a year ride the 1,250 feet up to its lofty tower to gaze out over Manhattan and marvel at the city scene spread out below them. On a clear day you can see 50 miles away. It is both unnerving and exhilarating to realize that workmen have stood on exposed beams in the open air at this great height to build the very observation platform upon which you are standing. —The Building of Manhattan, Donald A. Mackay Which words are closest in meaning to the words unnerving and exhilarating? weird and scary awful and annoying scary and exciting unexciting and boring

Araby every morning i lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. the blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could not be seen. when she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. i ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. i kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, i quickened my pace and passed her. this happened morning after morning. i had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. what is the general tone of the passage? a. courageous b. comical c. passionate d. fearful