The moment the words were out of my mouth, i wished i could take them back. i didn't mean to hurt keith's feelings. he is such a nice person, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be treated so poorly. i guess the stress from my job has been more than i can handle. instead of taking my problems out on him, i need to deal directly with the people who create the stress. if only i didn't care so much what people thought of me at work, then this would not have happened. the tone of the passage can be described as

a. funny
b. regretful
c. admiring

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

How does bill safire depict mankind in his proposed speech? 1.adventurous and greedy 2.adventurous and determined 3.daring and invasive 4.timid and wary of loss

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator