Thomas has included an extraneous sentence in the fifth paragraph (sentences 20-24). Which sentence should be deleted from this paragraph?
A Sentence 20
B Sentence 21
C Sentence 22
D Sentence 23

D

Explanation: I had this question before

D. Sentence 23  

Explanation:

Deleting sentence 23 removes an extraneous detail since the writer’s love of “freshly cut grass” is  irrelevant to the revival of the basin and the rest of the paragraph.

it b =a chorus ik for a fact

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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.