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Questions 11-12 are based on the following passage. 2007.10-S4-Q12 Some people boast of having a sixth sense professing to know or see things that others cannot .Fortune-tellers, mind readers, and mystics all lay claim to this power, and, in so Line doing, elicit widespread fascination in other, especially 5 book publishers and television producers. The questionable field of parapsychology is of course founded on the belief that at least some people actually possess this mysterious power. But to me, the real mystery is why so many fortune tellers choose to work the phones on television psychic 10 hotlines instead of becoming insanely wealthy stock traders on Wall Street. . . 12.The tone of the authors comment in the last sentence (“But……Street”) is most accurately described as (A) sardonic (B) baffled (C) condescending (0) didactic; (E) pensive I modestly 55 declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me-and I privately felt. all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it. if I only gave my own abilities a fair chance. Mr. Franklin. I imagine, must have seen my private sentiments in nay Face. He declined to 60 believe in my modesty: and he insisted on giving my abilities a fair chance. Two hours have passed since Mr. Franklin left me. As soon as his back was turned I went to my writing-desk to start the story. There I have sat helpless (in spite of my 65 abilities) ever since; seeing what Robinson Crusoe saw. as quoted above-namely, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost. 16. The phrase As soon as his back was turned(line 63) serves to emphasize Betteredges (A) Deviousness (B) cowardice (C) disloyalty (D) eagerness (E) courtesy I modestly 55 declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me-and I privately felt. all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it. if I only gave my own