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f you were adjusting your reading rate to suit your purpose, how would you read this passage from Act II, Scene 5, of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley?
SCROOGE. … I am light as a feather, I am happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. [Yells out window and then out to audience] Merry Christmas to everybody! Merry Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world! Hallo there! Whoop! Whoop! Hallo! Hallo!
A. slowly and carefully
B. quickly, to create the feeling of conversation
C. quickly, skipping the stage directions
D. slowly, to look for clues to the message
SCROOGE. … I am light as a feather, I am happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. [Yells out window and then out to audience] Merry Christmas to everybody! Merry Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world! Hallo there! Whoop! Whoop! Hallo! Hallo!
A. slowly and carefully
B. quickly, to create the feeling of conversation
C. quickly, skipping the stage directions
D. slowly, to look for clues to the message
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