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Read the selection below.  Then carefully consider the quest…

Read the selection below.  Then carefully consider the questions that follow, and choose the best responses.      Violence, of course, is rampant in the media.  But it is usually set in some kind of  moral context.  It’s usually only the bad guys who commit violent acts against the innocent.  When the good guys get violent, it’s against those who deserve it.  Dirty Harry blows away the scum; he doesn’t walk up to a toddler and say, “Make my day.”      But in some rock songs, it’s the “heroes” who commit the acts.  The people we are programmed to identify with are the ones being violent, with women on the receiving end.  In a society where rape and assaults on women are endemic, this is no small problem, with millions of young boys watching on their TV screens and listening on their Walkmans.      I think something needs to be done.  I’d like to see people in the industry respond to the problem.  I’d love to see some women rock stars speak out against violence  against women.  I would like to see disc jockeys refuse air play to records and videos that contain such violence.  At the very least, I want to see the end of the silence.  I want journalists and parents and critics and performing artists to keep this issue alive in the public forum.   The tone of this paragraph can be described as?

Choose the word that expresses the tone in the passage.    …

Choose the word that expresses the tone in the passage.     Our little cocapoo puppy is truly the light of our lives.  She’s the sweetest bundle of love ever created.  When I hold her in my lap and she looks at me with her melting brown eyes, I know that she feels love and loyalty as deeply as any human being.