Read the excerpt from "mother tongue."

and here you would be presented with a list of four possible pairs, one of which showed the same kind of relationship: red is to stoplight, bus is to arrival, chills is to fever, yawn is to boring. well, i could never think that way. i knew what the tests were asking, but i could not block out of my mind the images already created by the first pair, “sunset is to nightfall”—and i would see a burst of colors against a darkening sky, the moon rising, the lowering of a curtain of stars. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt?

a. tan gives an example of a test question to support the idea that more efforts must be made in the home to expose children to standard english.

b. tan relates a story about taking an achievement test to support the idea that english curricula must be structured more like math curricula.

c. tan discusses achievement tests to support the idea that language cannot be separated from the personal meanings and experiences attached to it.

d. tan describes her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that published authors are most qualified to write test questions for students.

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C) Tan discusses achievement tests to support the idea that language cannot be separated from the personal meanings and experiences attached to it.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Mother Tongue" we can see that the speaker (Tan) is explaining her experience in taking ahievement tests, and an example of the types of questions that this kind of tests contain. She makes this discussion to support the idea that language cannot be separated from the personal meanings and experiences attached to it, we can see that in the phrase "...but I could not block out of my mind the images already created by the first pair, “sunset is to nightfall”—and I would see a burst of colors against a darkening sky, the moon rising..."

jessica, a teenage girl who just wants popularity, does everything to get attention. she puts her hair in a bun and steals her mom's lipstick and such. but then she takes something and it makes her inside and outside appearance  go bad.

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explanation:

you didn't give a theme but i did a question like this a while ago so i hope this is what you were looking for.

the correct answer is "dissent"

explanation:

because dissent is when one or more judges express disagreement with the majority in court, in specific legal systems.   an   argument in opposition is presented to the court, with a different interpretation, or application.