Choose the sentence in which the underlined word has the most negative connotation. A. I told Marla her apology was unnecessary because she did not do anything wrong.
B. We bought a box of 16 shirts for 12 kids, so in the end there were four surplus shirts.
C. Out in the wilderness with no electricity, my uncharged cell phone was completely useless.
D. Sally thought the movie scene was superfluous because it did not add much to the plot.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.

Read the sentence from last lecture by randy pausch. all right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because i spent a lot of time talking about that and i’m really not interested. pausch tells his audience this because he wants them to know that