Robert is leading a project online that includes students from different cultures. Two of the students spend most of the time listening intently but not speaking. Robert knows they are smart, but he becomes frustrated when they don’t respond to his attempts to engage them. Which excerpts from a report to his supervisor explains the most likely reason that the students don’t speak? Check all that apply.

A. There are differences in our communication styles because of the cultures the students grew up in.
B. Online meetings are an ineffective way to meet with people from different cultures.
C. There are differences in social behaviors because the students come from cultures that emphasize listening.
D, The language barrier is too great for our group to have an effective meeting online.
E. Online meetings make it hard for the students to discuss material they don’t understand.

Read the passage from animal farm. "that was part of the arrangement! " cried squealer. "jones's shot only grazed him. i could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. the plot was for snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. and he very nearly succeeded—i will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic leader, comrade napoleon. do you not remember how, just at the moment when jones and his men had got inside the yard, snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? and do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that comrade napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'death to humanity! ' and sank his teeth in jones's leg? surely you remember that, comrades? " exclaimed squealer, frisking from side to side. now when squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. at any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle snowball had turned to flee. but boxer was still a little uneasy. how does the characterization of squealer support the author’s purpose? squealer's dramatic accusations draw parallels between him and stalin’s propagandists. squealer's uncertainty shows that he is not a reliable ally of napoleon and is ineffective with messaging. squealer's ability to get the animals to listen to him shows that any animal can rise to be a leader in time. squealer's humble interactions with the animals reflect the importance of equality and cooperation.