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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by global warming, evidence of man's ability

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to make anything microwavable.

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The tone of Passage 1 can best be described as... what??

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The author of Passage 1 definitely believes the government isn't doing enough to stop

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climate change, so the first thing we can do is eliminate anything positive-sounding.

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"Sympathetic" is the first word that strikes us as being too nice.

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It comes from the word "sympathy" and means that someone is showing care or concern

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for something.

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The author definitely isn't showing any concern for the administration and the Republicans

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who support them, though, so we can eliminate (A).

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"Supportive" sounds way too positive as well.

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This author is out to bring down the Republicans he thinks are ruining the world. He might

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be doing it to support a cause he believes in, but this article shows him in full attack

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mode. So choice (B) is off the list.

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"Bored" may not be positive, but it's

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out of the running, too. We get the feeling that this author has more than enough steam

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to keep going for a while.

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If the author's tone were "measured" then that would mean that it was evenhanded.

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However, when the author uses phrases like "stubborn insistence" to describe his

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opponents' actions, he's throwing evenhandedness out the window.

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We can cross out choice (C). The "dis" in "displeased" lets us

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know that it describes somebody who's not pleased at all.

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No doubt, choice (E) is the right answer.

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We wonder if there's anything that'd cheer this guy up?

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