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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you
- 00:06
by sensitivity Great for your relationships bad for your guns
- 00:11
All right check the following passage Yeah there's a podium
- 00:15
friendly with best friend Three the blame mandala going somewhere
- 00:21
Outer world No you don't Which of these sentences from
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- 00:28
the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's
- 00:31
nature and hear the potential answer I will just like
- 00:39
hallmark cards and lifetime movies This question asked us to
- 00:42
get in touch with our sensitive side Well really we
- 00:45
need to use our sensitive side to get in touch
- 00:46
with narrator sensitive about it Yeah we don't really know
- 00:50
her that well but sometimes we have to step out
- 00:51
of our comfort zone Joyce a claims that the narrator
- 00:55
is being sensitive when she talks about chilling at the
- 00:57
beach with a roommate all summer We're going to say
- 00:59
no to this one though summers at the beach don't
- 01:01
usually require a lot of sensitivity unless the friend were
- 01:04
with is super high maintenance option c says the narrator
- 01:08
is being sensitive when she talks about goofing around with
- 01:10
henry We get the sense that the narrator is sensitive
- 01:12
to henry and all kinds of ways wink wink but
- 01:15
she doesn't exactly bare her soul or in this particular
- 01:18
sentence an option b the narrator tells us all about
- 01:21
pointy edged hat silhouetted by a beautiful sunset Well this
- 01:24
one's kind of tempting because it does show us that
- 01:26
the narrator has a knack for describing things you could
- 01:29
say she's sensitive to her surroundings Or something like that
- 01:31
But we have a feeling that this question is looking
- 01:33
for some emotional sensitivity The narrator finally shows us her
- 01:38
sensitive side in choice T what does it mean to
- 01:40
be sensitive while whether we're talking guns or emotions it
- 01:43
means to feel things deeply This is his narrator will
- 01:46
feel the loss of her friends deeply when she moves
- 01:49
far away from him But really she has nothing to
- 01:51
worry about facebook goalkeeper in touch with her college pals
- 01:54
at least long enough for her to totally replace them
- 01:57
with new friends from the real world you know yeah
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