Read expert from “mothers tongue “ then she began to talk more loudly. “what he want, i come to new york tell him front of his boss, you cheating me? ” and i was trying to calm her down, make her be quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “i can’t tolerate any more excuses. if i don’t receive the check immediately, i am going to have to speak to your manager when i’m in new york next week.” and sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and i was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real mrs. tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken english. how does this paragraph develop the idea that a person's ability to use language has nothing to do with his or her intelligence? a it describes an occurrence in which the author, who has mastered the language, is shown to be less intelligent than her mother, who hasn't. b it shows an instance in which someone with little mastery of a language nonetheless wisely and correctly recognizes that she is being taken advantage of. c it depicts an incident in which having mastered a language actually proves to be a sign of foolishness or ignorance. d it provides an example of a time when a person who struggled to use language effectively was outsmarted by someone who was more adept with words.

The correct answer is B: It shows an instance in which someone with little mastery of a language nonetheless wisely and correctly recognizes that she is being taken advantage of.

This is so because the author has already confessed that she used to interpret her mother's limitation with the English language as a sign of intellectual limitation, and this anecdote proves how wrong she had been about it. The author's mother, recognizing how she was not only disregarded but also taken advantage of by native speakers, had her daughter pretend to be her on the phone in order to be taken seriously. In other words, the author's mother had no problem in understanding the intricacies of many situations presented to her in English (such as the workings of the stock market), but her lack of mastery in language production was often wrongly perceived as lack of understanding.

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate. 

actually the answer would be c.) jane addams worked hard to improve the lives of less fortunate people.