Read the paragraph. In science class, we like to spy cool things going on in our experiments. We use magnifying glasses to observe tiny growths. I look forward to every class, but it creeps me out when my classmate stares at me while I conduct experiments.
Based on the context, which statement best describes the connotations of the underlined words?
A. Spy and observe are neutral, and stares is positive.
B. Spy is positive, observe is neutral, and stares is negative.
C. Spy is neutral, observe is positive, and stares is neutral.
D. Spy is positive, observe is negative, and stares is positive.

spy and observe are neutral, and stares is positive

awnser:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran