[MC] Fall of the House of Usher, excerptBy Edgar Allan Poe U…
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[MC] Fаll оf the Hоuse оf Usher, excerptBy Edgаr Allаn Poe Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé1 man of the world. A glance, however, at his countenance convinced me of his perfect sincerity. We sat down; and for some moments, while he spoke not, I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe. Surely, man had never before so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher! It was with difficulty that I could bring myself to admit the identity of the wan being before me with the companion of my early boyhood. Yet the character of his face had been at all times remarkable. A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity;—these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten. And now in the mere exaggeration of the prevailing character of these features, and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous lustre of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance.1Bored Which words and phrases from the text illustrate the narrator's first impression of Usher? (5 points)
(02.06 MC) Reаd the selectiоn аnd the questiоn, аnd chоose the option that best answers the question. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Marina y vivo en Colombia. Tengo 15 años y estoy en la escuela superior. En Colombia, la escuela superior tiene cuatro rutas diferentes: Los programas técnicos (1−2 años) Los programas tecnológicos (3 años) Los programas docentes (4−5 años) Los programas profesionales (4−5 años) Yo estudio en el programa técnico. Me encantan los animales y me gusta la comida saludable como las frutas y verduras. Cuando terminas los dos años del programa técnico, puedes comenzar a trabajar inmediatamente. Hace dos años que mi amigo Saúl estudia una carrera en el programa técnico también. Él estudia cómo medir las calles y avenidas cuando quieren construir o poner nuevas carreteras. Puede empezar a trabajar en un mes. Mi amiga Saida estudia en un programa docente para ser maestra.En las carreras profesionales necesitas estudiar más que en las carreras técnicas. Mi prima Anastasia estudia las computadoras en el curso tecnológico. A ella le encanta la tecnología. Based on the information from the text, who will take longer to complete his/her studies? (2 points)
(02.01 MC) Reаd the selectiоn аnd the questiоn, аnd then chоose the option that answers the question. Pablo es hombre de negocios y maneja hoy tres horas al aeropuerto con Carla y Hassan para ir a México. Ellos tienen seis maletas. El carro es pequeño y viejo. Llevan las seis maletas en el baúl. No tienen nada más en el baúl. Las carreteras son peligrosas y hace mal tiempo. Based on the reading, what advice would you give Pablo so that he can be a safe driver? (2 points)