(D) That Leila is shocked at what the driver of the convertible did
Incredulous is defined as being "unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true". If we analyze the sentence carefully, we can sort of make out how she feels, but if we completely remove the word from the sentence and input something we can understand a little easier, such as:
<em>"...</em><u><em>incredibly surprised</em></u><em> that he would stop traffic just to yell at another driver behind him."</em>
We can see that it fits right in.
Lastly, look at the word itself. It has a lot in common with "incredible" which is a much more commonly used word, knowing that it means "too improbably to be believed". This is one of the best methods for finding out the meaning to words we don't know. It won't be perfect 100% of the time, but in most cases it works.
Is this the excerpt you are referring to?
<span>In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
</span>
If so, the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand how hot the spear actually is.
I would go with, It is necessary to have a list of needed items
The writer should do something about the study math and geography
He used his
position to generate income to strengthen the federal government’s power.
<span>Frequently,
the first sentence of a paragraph will be the topic sentence, the notion of which might make the selection of the topic sentence of this paragraph a bit tricky. However, in this instance, the topic sentence
is, in fact, the second sentence. This
can be determined by looking at all the body sentences. When we look at the body sentences, all
sentences are about the income and power of the government. As such, the remainder of the paragraph following
the second sentence is an elaboration of the second sentence, “He used his
position to generate income to strengthen the federal government’s power.” Thus, it is safe to say that the second
sentence is the topic sentence of the paragraph.</span>
