In the story, the author reminisces about Dismount Fort, the small town where she attended elementary school in the 1960s. After a decade, she returns for a visit but finds country life dull. At night, she passes her time by reading books and magazines and writing her boyfriend. It is while reading a narrative poem in an issue of<span> Youth </span>magazine that she remembers her elementary school teacher, Zhu Wenli, a young female teacher who taught at the school eleven years before.
The narrator remembers that Zhu Wenli was a pretty and delicate recent college graduate when she first taught at the school. Her features were exquisite, 'lacking the stern looks of a woman soldier,' and 'her voice was much too soft and too weak for those revolutionary songs' the children had to learn how to sing. Chairman Mao's words were gospel at that time, and the narrator learned to scoff at her teacher's fragile sweetness. After all, the children were being taught that 'sweet flowers are poisonous.'
All of the guests HAD gone to the concert in the park.
(But I think it could also be have, if you are talking about it happening in the present).
The skepticism is characterized by an atittude of doubting, questioning and/or not believing something or someone.
As we can see in “Of Cannibals”, Montaigned used skepticism to justify his arguments on his opinion about clever people. For instance:
1) “They never show you things as they are” – The author also said that clever people “cannot help altering history a little”, and then he says that they never show things as they really are; meaning that since he believes that clever people tend to change facts and information, the consequence of it is that their speech isn’t 100% honest. Therefore, he is skeptical when it comes to the true nature of those facts.
2) (...) And to give credence to their judgement and attract you to it, they are prone to add something to the matter, to strecht it out or amplify it” – Now the author claims that clever people try to convince others by adding details or facts to what actually happened. He believes that once the fact is amplified, it gets more attention and credit. In this case, he is being skeptical in regards to judgements and opinions, suggesting that clever people aren’t really honest in their judgements as they want others to “buy their ideas” and because of it they will tell things in a way that will persuade people to do what they want and believe what they say.
Answer: The authors provide a primary-source quotation from a British abolitionist named William Wilberforce.
Explanation: It takes some careful reading of the article to match the content of the article with the descriptions in the answer options.
The first option is misleading. The passage mentions "the new bill that would limit British involvement in the slave trade" but there is no detail.
The second option is also misleading. The passage mentions "economic force" but there is no detail.
The fourth option is misleading. The passage mentions "Bristol, a port city with a harbor filled with slave ships" but there is no summary of that article.
The path to the right answer is paying attention to the point of the question: "to support the claim that many people joined the antislavery movement for moral reasons"
The correct answer refers to the sentence " William Wilberforce, another leader of the abolitionist cause, felt the new mood in his country. "God can turn the hearts of men," he marveled." Infer that moral reasons are tied to the notion that God can change hearts.
Answer:
O First, I needed to act as if the ridicule didn't bother me at all.
