The narrator is motivated by a desire for What evidence in the text best supports this
conclusion?

I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains,
waiting to hear the right music that would send me
floating on my tiptoes. I was like the Christ child lifted
out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. I was
Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with
sparkly cartoon music filling the air.
In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I
would soon become perfect. My mother and father would
adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel
the need to sulk for anything.
- "Two kinds,
Amy Tan

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. according to one joke, scientists are now using lawyers instead of rats in laboratory experiments. there are three reasons for this change. for one thing, there are more lawyers than rats. for another, the scientists become less emotionally attached to the lawyers. and finally, certain things are so disgusting that rats won’t do them. 1. a lawyer must have made up this joke. 2. some people feel there are too many lawyers. 3. lawyers have the reputation of being willing to do anything. 4. scientists have the reputation of

Select the correct meaning of the word below you may use a dictionary yachet a) yawn b) large boat

2pointsread this excerpt from the beginning of nikolai gogol's "the nose": on the 25th march, 18-, a very strange occurrence tookplace in st petersburg.which option best explains why gogol chose to begin his story in this way? oa. to let readers know that the story that follows is nonfictionb. to explain that information in the story is factual and correctooc. to immediately establish a straightforward and matter-of-facttoneod. to allow readers to better imagine what st. petersburg looks likesubmit