Read the passage.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was written by Samuel Clemens who wrote under the name, Mark Twain. When Twain was a boy in school in
the 1840s, he always earned the medal for winning the weekly spelling bee. Once, he left out the first "r" in February so that a girl he liked would
win. This and other stories became the basis for many of the delightful tales in Twain's writings. He went on to become one of the most famous
American writers of all time.
How does the author use the story about the spelling bee to introduce Mark Twain in the passage?
01. The story shows that Twain went on to become a famous writer.
02. The story details how the spelling bee Inspired Twain to become a writer.
O 3. The story emphasizes the time period of the stories Twain wrote later in his life.
04. The story illustrates how Twain used his past experiences to create interesting stories.
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English, 22.06.2019 01:00, elijahjoyner20
Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance
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English, 22.06.2019 04:30, alexedwards307
Ineed . i need to write a story with this words. vapid, reverie, chastity, petty, invariably, posterity, axiom, pugnacious, bourgeoisie, knell
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