She pulled back, gasping for air, her mascara

running down her cheeks.

She used her hand to

wipe her mouth, smearing her

lipstick in the process.

She looked at him, and

it was clear from the look

in his eyes that he wasn't

finished yet, she smiled,

a wicked smile as he

took a firm grip on

her hair once more.

-Cienna D. V

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In the context of the passage, what does the word torpid mean? b. predatory a. energetic c. dormant d. aquatic

On a scale 1 to 10 how responsible are you? explain your answer

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.