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TSI Reading: Visualizing a Scene from Its Description 3 Views


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Which of the following descriptions helps the reader visualize that the man is freezing to death?

(A)"The withdrawal of blood from the surface of his body now began to make him shiver."
(B)"...holding the flame of the matches clumsily to the bark that would not light readily..."
(C)"He cherished the flame carefully and awkwardly."
(D)"The blazing matches fell sizzling into the snow, but the birch-bark was alight."


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Ice ice baby way Tried to a theme songs with

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ease to entertain you even more but we'll stop Okay

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the question on the next one and the ice ah

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eyes flow river here Which of the following descriptions helps

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the reader visualize that the man is freezing to death

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When we're cold blood withdraws from our extremities to protect

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the most vital parts of our bodies like the head

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and heart and chest And you know other regions that's

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why our hands and feet get cold the fastest which

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is bad news for those fingers and toes Yeah they

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get frostbitten This process is the first step towards hypothermia

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I'm freezing to death Even if we don't have the

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science down pat this option sounds most seriously Life threatening

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for the answer here Withdrawal of blood and the loser

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bowl Yeah it kind of went through it The way

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the man struggles to build a fire with his numb

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hands is painful to read But these lines don't clearly

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illustrate his mortal danger And though he briefly gets the

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birch bark lit the victory is short lived So it's

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Not much of an illustration there So you have the

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answers at the withdrawal of blood from the surface of

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his body now began to make him shiver Almost like 00:01:11.946 --> [endTime] what it does when we do our taxes

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