PART B: Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to part A? A “In 2012, Asian-American kids overall had SAT scores 143 points above average and a 63-point edge over their white counterparts.” ( Paragraph 8) B “Although success seems to favor recent racial minorities, it is also characteristic of two well-established groups of white Americans.” ( Paragraph 13) C “However counterintuitive it sounds, the authors maintain that it’s precisely this unstable combination of superiority, insecurity and grit that generates drive.” ( Paragraph 18) D “The book has also been panned for ignoring such success-driving factors as transfer of wealth between generations.” ( Paragraph 23)

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

the type of supporting detail is fact!

caliban is prospero's slave in the shakespear's play "the tempest"

c? not a 100% sure

explanation: