5.(MC) Susan shivered as the cold air filled her lungs. The quiet snow
blanketed the ground and crunched beneath her feet as she made
her way to the lonely mailbox. Her hope hung around her like a
heavy coat. Once more she stood before the mailbox, closing her
eyes. Looking up toward the trees above her, tiny green buds
appeared on the branches of the smallest oak. The fears of the
long, hard vinter began to fade and she opened the door, knowing
that this time would be different.

What object in the paragraph best symbolizes the end of her fears?

A. The door
B. The snow
C. The coat

the answer is b "spewing black smoke", i took the test and got 100%   hope i

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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