Why does the author open up her article with an anecdote about a little girl and a dog? A. to get the reader's attention with a human interest story

B. to show that humans are smarter than dogs

C. to make the reader believe this is fiction

D. to persuade the reader about how intelligent animals are

What does this say? it's for project i'm doing.

We see steve stand shakily and head back to the defense table. he looks out onto the onlookers and sees his parents. his mother forces a smile and his father makes a fist and nods emphatically. we see steve sit down, start to pick up a glass of water, and have to put it down because his hand is shaking so badly. what can be determined from steve's actions? he loves his parents dearly. he feels very worried. he is not very thirsty. he did not tell the truth.

How does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students' ability to write well tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests shd d include more interesting content tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person's ability to communicate