In the story Little Women, one family brings breakfast to another on Christmas morning. Read this passage and then answer the question that follows: Mrs. March gave the mother tea and gruel, and comforted her with promises of help, while she dressed the little baby as tenderly as if it had been her own. The girls meantime spread the table, set the children round the fire, and fed them like so many hungry birds, laughing, talking, and trying to understand the funny broken English.

What implicit meaning can you find about the children from this text?(5 points)

a

The children made noises like infants, as they had not yet learned to speak properly.

b

Mrs. March and her girls cared about giving help to the mother and her children.

c

The girls and Mrs. March thought the woman and children were like little birds.

d

The woman ate for the first time in many weeks and began to feel better.

b. Mrs. March and her girls cared about giving help to the mother and her children.

Explanation:

a. is not the right answer. While it is said that their English was “funny” and “broken”, it doesn’t mean they made noises like infants

b. is the right answer. We can see Mrs. March took care of the mother and the baby, while her daughters were helping around the table and with other children. Through this, we can conclude Mrs. March and her girls were caring about this family and their wellbeing and wanted to do all to help them and make their Christmas as beautiful as possible.

c. is not the right answer. The passage said they “fed them like so many hungry birds”, not that March gamily saw them be like the birds.

d. is not the right answer. Mrs. March did comfort the mother with tea and gruel, but it is not said that she didn’t ear for a long time.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)