1. "i am not much at heights, but the mules were enormously tall, enormously heavy, very beautiful beasts, white, red, yellow, and black, and sleek with unlimited polishing and grooming" based on this passage, what is the author's purpose for writing this text? a. to entertain the reader with tales of horses b. to persuade the reader to take up horseback riding c. to illustrate the unique beauty found in china d. to inform the reader about the poor road conditions in china

C) to illustrate the unique beauty found in China.

Explanation: When writing, an author can have several different purposes, for example: to persuade, inform, to entertain, to explain, etc. From the given options, the one that represents the author's purpose for writing the text, is the corresponding to option C: to illustrate the unique beauty found in China, because, as we can see, the narrator describes the mules as "enormously tall, enormously heavy, very beautiful beasts, white, red, yellow, and black, and sleek with unlimited polishing and grooming."

given the fact that the question is about the detail that best support the idea that oppressive leaders use   propaganda to achieve thir goals,   the first option does not refer to any kind of propaganda, since it only tells about that the milk and the windfall apple should be reserved for the pigs. in the second option, that is, "snowball and napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on the neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the rebellion, and teach them the tune of "beasts of england". it can be identified that the oppressors make use of the propaganda, which is represented by the pigeons, and the information they have to tell other animals about what was happening in the farm in order to get their objectives. for that reason, the right answer is the second option, taking into account that the third option do not refer to propaganda since it only talks about that they did not want jones back. and, finally, the last option refers to the result of the given news, but it does not mean about the propaganda they used to achieve their goals.