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Precise Word Choice to Shape Tone Practice Test
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Read the following excerpt from a short editorial about phone use in conversations (embedded below).
“When someone checks a phone mid-conversation, the gesture is small but loud. It tells the speaker, without words, that attention is negotiable. Most of us do it out of habit, not cruelty, and that is precisely why it spreads: the slight becomes normal. Putting the phone face down is not a grand moral act; it is a modest signal that a person is present.”
The author’s precise choice of loud most strongly suggests the tone is…
Read the following excerpt from a short editorial about phone use in conversations (embedded below).
“When someone checks a phone mid-conversation, the gesture is small but loud. It tells the speaker, without words, that attention is negotiable. Most of us do it out of habit, not cruelty, and that is precisely why it spreads: the slight becomes normal. Putting the phone face down is not a grand moral act; it is a modest signal that a person is present.”
The author’s precise choice of loud most strongly suggests the tone is…