Not only was she speaking in public, she was speaking with confidence and
poise.

even though the waiter spilled wine on her, she maintained her poise.

poise means:

a.
calm state of mind

b.
balance

c.
sense of reason

d.
enthusiasm

answer: yes, ive read this book! now whats the problem ?

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the second choice.

the sentences  articulate the philosophical concept of altruism.

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