Which is the best rebuttal to the counterclaim

Read the passage: canines may not be the deepest thinkers in the world. but perhaps that's for the best. the life of a dog—sitting alone all day, waiting for everyone to come home—can be pretty boring. super-smart animals would probably get totally stressed out, says university of pennsylvania researcher james serpell. look at it this way: if dogs were any smarter, they probably wouldn't choose to hang around with us. which best describes the tone of the passage?

In edgar allen poe's "masque of the red death", what object is kept in the black room?

Speaking rapidly in a large gymnasium causes your words to run together; making them hard to distinguish. true false