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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

The denial-squawk refers to the

• warning call by the hawk before killing its prey

• desperate, pitiable cry of the prey

• hawk's response to the cry of its prey

• helpless cry of its prey to avert death

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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

To the hawk, a day's rebuke to hunger suggests that the bird

• averts its own death by killing and eating its prey

• faces death fearlessly in contrast to its prey

• bows to hunger

• causes death by preying on lesser animals

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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

Here, glazed accord with death means that

• death is in partnership with starvation

• the hawk also becomes a victim of death at the end

• the prey meets death willingly

• death is inevitable

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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

The word that is closest in meaning to the word dappled in the poem is

• glazed

• flown

• spotted

• fearful

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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

Here, he too becomes a novice suggests that

• death comes swiftly to the fearless hawk

• the hawk also meets death, as weak and helpless as its prey

• the hawk's prey becomes a predator instead

• all living creatures are potentially victims of others

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Hawk

All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk, whose dappled wingspread opens to a phrase that only victims gaping in the gaze of Death Occurring can recite. To stalk; to plunge; to harvest; the denial-squawk of dying's a struggle; these are but a day's rebuke to hunger for the hawk, whose glazed accord with death admits no show of shock. Death's users know it is not theirs to own, nor can they fathom all it means to die for young to know a different death from old. But when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown, he too becomes a novice, fear struck by the certain plummet once these feathers fold.

-Daniel Waters

The following line exemplifies the use of personification as a poetic device

• to stalk; to plunge; to harvest;...

• but when the spotted hawk's last flight is flown ...

• death's users know it is not theirs to own,...

• ... the certain plummet once these feathers fold

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Providing students ________ can encourage second language acquisition.

• frequent feedback on spoken and written outputs

• informal interviews

• adequate speaking and writing assignments

• the opportunity to voice their opinions and to problem solve in the target language

Generally speaking, the first language is

• marked by the accent and regional expressions of the area where students grow up

• influenced by the grammar and style of second language

• marked by the characteristic difficulty in mastering it

• marked by the influences of the school environment the child is studying in

Language learning is better achieved if what students learn

• is functional in terms of their life values and goals

• is in a controlled classroom environment

• is closer in form and sound to their mother tongue

• helps them improve their chances of college admission

An activity asks students to determine from a list of possible answers with a title, what kind of information will appear in an input text before an audio recording is played. Here, students are

• filling in missing information

• actively predicting the content of the input

• checking for facts

• guessing answers to questions