Read this excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. The general's eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come. The swish of the underbrush against his hunting boots grew fainter and fainter. What can be inferred from the general's behavior in the excerpt? A. He figured out that Rainsford was atop the tree. B. He recognized that Rainsford would not be easy to catch. C. He realized it was too late at night to continue hunting in the jungle. D. He understood that Rainsford was an expert hunter, perhaps better than himself. E. He knew Rainsford would come back to the chateau later that night.

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

explanation:

answer: a

explanation:

its passive

active

passive

active

word count 168

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.