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Read the passage.




I seemed to be floating through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were a compact flock of birds passing just beneath my level on the right or left, their fins, like sails, set all around them....




Which best describes Thoreau's tone?


Question 4 options:


weary



sympathetic



frightened



amazed


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What happened to the old dugout canoe used by the old man?


Question 5 options:


It was stolen.



It was sold.



It probably sank.



It was traded.

User Letitbe
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For your first question, your answer should be, "amazed".

For your second question, your answer should be, "It probably sank."

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This vivid experience by Henry David Thoreau is an example of vivid personal and subjective perception. It does not put itself in the center of the universe, but from the perspective of perception describes its experience that represents the sense of admiration. His tone is best described with "amazed".

The main Thoreau's theme is that life can be very simple if human desire is simple. People complicate their lives by wanting things that they do not really need. Certainly there should be financial and social security, but in order to achieve personal independence that is more valuable than needs.

The second answer is: c.

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