Read this excerpt from the passage. Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience,
and before I got to the head of the island, I had fifteen or twenty
people assembled down there under my nose. I began to
wonder what the trouble was.
Which word could replace the word wonder and best maintain
the meaning of the excerpt?
Read the passage
excerpt from "A Cub Pilot
from Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
There is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until
he has brought it to absolute perfection. Nothing short of
perfection will do. That faculty is memory. He cannot stop with
merely thinking a thing is so and so, he must know it for this is
one of the exact sciences with what scom a pilot was looked
upon, in the old times, if he ever ventured to deal in that feeble
phrase, think" instead of the vigorous one, "I knowl"
One cannot easily realize what a tremendous thing it is to know
every trivial detail of twelve hundred miles of river and know it
with absolute exactness. If you will take the longest street in
New York and travel up and down it, conning its features
patiently until you know every house and window and lamppost
and big and little sign by heart, and know them so accurately
that you can instantly name the one you are abreast of when
you are set down at random in that street in the middle of an
agonize
question
O imagine
dream
No