Question 1
Read the paragraph. Which sentence is a clue to how Ruthie and
Spencer feel about their dad?
Spencer and I started whooping
and jumping around and hugging
Mom.
"Ruthie, Spencer," Mom called to us one evening, "come in
here." I thought we had done something wrong, but when
we got to the kitchen, Mom's eyes were sparkling. "Dad's
coming home!" she announced. "He'll be here late tomorrow
night!" Spencer and I started whooping and jumping around
and hugging Mom. Dad was in the army, and we hadn't
seen him since Thanksgiving. It was almost summer.
"Ruthie, Spencer," Mom called to
us one evening, "come in here."
A
Dad was in the army, and we
hadn't seen him since
Thanksgiving
“Dad's coming home!" she
announced

Read the quotation by dorothea lange about the photo “migrant mother” from years of dust. i saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. i do not remember how i explained my presence or my camera to her, but i do remember she asked me no questions. . i did not ask her name or history. she told me her age, that she was thirty-two. she said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children had killed. she had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. there she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might her, and so she me. there was a sort of equality about it. how does this quotation appeal to readers’ emotions? a. it appeals to readers’ delight by showing the joy of family life. b. it appeals to readers’ sympathy by describing difficult times. c. it appeals to readers’ fear by explaining a natural disaster. d. it appeals to readers’ sense of humor by retelling a funny story.