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.
C since the proximity to Earth is high, it’s visibility is higher
The correct answer would seem to me that the artwork suggests a woman in her home, while the poem's figurative language connects her to nature.
The artwork is giving us an image of a Japanese woman, quite possibly a geisha due to the other imagery stated in the poem. She is sat in front of her mirror in the morning beginning her daily ritual of applying her makeup.
The poems figurative language makes use of giving us comparisons of the woman to aspects of nature, such as hair the color of seaweed spread over rocks, fingerprints of pollen, curve of a shoulder like the slope of a hill set deep in snow in a country of huge white solemn birds, her face appears in the mirror a reflection in a winter pond.
People admired Paul's paintings lately.
She cleaned the house all afternoon.
They made this car in Japan.
4. Yenia passed the last two exams with a great mark.
Mike have learned a new language for three years.
Who wrote Hamlet?
7.My husband will help you if you need him.
8. They must study the new lessons a bit harder.
passive to active voice:
1. Luka will finish the unit by Monday.
