Double the ! ! read the passage. in the text box below answer the questions below in complete sentences. i visited the computer room in our school the other day, and i was appalled. students were using the computers, but they did not know how to use the keyboard well. it looked like they had never seen one before. they wasted time hunting for letters on the keyboard and then pecking out words using two fingers. it was like watching a bird search for worms. this seems like a waste of time and effort. i think it is time to bring typing instruction back to the classroom. imagine how much more our students will get out of their computer time if they know how to use the keyboard without having to look at it. how does the author use the analogy to support his or her purpose?

It warportant fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions b. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect e it shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

Identify how chekhov’s background and beliefs may have influenced his short story “the bet”.