Behind the tractor rolled the shining disks, cutting the earth with blades not powering but surgery pushing the cut earth to the right where the second row of disks cut it .. which word or words most creates a negative tone toward the tractor? a. plowing b. to the right c. surgery d. second row

C. Surgery.

Explanation: The tone of a text or a story is the author's attitude towards the audience, the theme or even the characters of a story. There are many different kinds of tone, positive, negative, happy, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt the word that creates a negative tone toward the tractor is "surgery" because it gives the idea of the tractor cutting the earth in a precise but heartless way, like doing a surgery.

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can