Select the correct text in the passage. Which evidence in the passage best supports the inference that there is mystery behind the design of the Leaning Tower?
excerpt from The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
At Pisa we climbed up to the top of the strangest structure the world has any knowledge of-the Leaning Tower. As
everyone knows, it is in the neighborhood of one hundred and eighty feet high-and I beg to observe that one
hundred and eighty feet reach to about the height of four ordinary three-story buildings piled one on top of the other,
and is a very considerable altitude for a tower of uniform thickness to aspire to, even when it stands upright-yet this
one leans more than thirteen feet out of the perpendicular. It is seven hundred years old, but neither history or
tradition say whether it was built as it is purposely, or whether one of its sides has settled. There is no record that it
ever stood straight up. It is built of marble. It is an airy and a beautiful structure, and each of its eight stories is
encircled by fluted columns, some of marble and some of granite, with Corinthian capitals that were handsome when
they were new. It is a bell tower, and in its top hangs a chime of ancient bells. The winding staircase within is dark, but
one always knows which side of the tower he is on because of his naturally gravitating from one side to the other of
the staircase with the rise or dip of the tower. Some of the stone steps are foot-worn only on one end; others only on
the other end; others only in the middle. To look down into the tower from the top is like looking down into a tilted
well. A rope that hangs from the center of the top touches the wall before it reaches the bottom. Standing on the
summit, one does not feel altogether comfortable when he looks down from the high side; but to crawl on your breast
to the verge on the lower side and try to stretch your neck out far enough to see the base of the tower, makes your
flesh creep, and convinces you for a single moment in spite of all your philosophy, that the building is falling
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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)

the correct answer is c. he speculates on what might happen at given points in the future in a world without people. alan h. weisman is an american author, professor, and journalist. authors organize their information with a purpose. they present their ideas in an organized way. this is called text structure. weisman uses text structure so as to improve overall comprehension and to prove his points.

you didn't provide the passage.

explanation:

seeing as this is your first question on i can see why you may have not known that you need to provide the passage.

without the passage, or even the name of the passage, we can not read the passage, therefore we can not determine when or how the pacing effects the tone.

however, you can either repost this question (providing the passage this time)

or you can comment below what the passage is, and i'll you to the best of my ability!