The correct answer to whether the statement <em>"Indicators are definite signs that abuse or neglect has taken place"</em> is true or false is false.
An indicator is a <em>trend or fact</em> that<em> indicates</em> the state or level of something - in this case, indicators <em>would be the definite signs </em>that abuse or neglect had taken place. However, if considering the verb <em>"to indicate"</em>, which means <em>to point out or to</em> something or someone, it can be understood that indicators <em>only provide the directions</em>, or call someone's attention in those directions. Therefore, <em>indicators alone couldn't be definite signs</em>, something not doubtful. Definite signs would have to <em>prove with data or documented facts</em> that abuse or neglect has taken place. Indicators alone <em>can't prove</em> the state or level of something, like abuse or neglect, but <em>only point in their direction</em>. Hence, the answer is <em>false.</em>
Answer: D) The details describe the extensive and repetitive process necessary to create white sugar.
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
