Question 1 of 10 Read this passage:
There's one other alternative-one that takes both skill and
courage: Forgoing any cradling action, grasp the cone
more firmly between thumb and forefinger and extend the
other fingers so that they are out of the way of the dripping
from the bottom, then increase the waist-bend angle from
twenty-five degrees to thirty-five degrees, and then eat the
cone, allowing it to drip out of the bottom onto the ground
in front of you! Experienced and thoughtful cone-eaters
enjoy facing up to this kind of sudden challenge.
What is the author's purpose for including this portion of "How to Eat an ice-
Cream Cone?
O A. To appeal to the audience with emotion
B. To inform the audience with facts
C. To entertain the audience with humor
D. To persuade the audience with language
h

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”