B.4 Compare passages for tone 6JA
Analyti
Select the passage that has a more disgusted tone.
It is more difficult to paint well with certain colors, in particular the finer and
lighter yellows. These paints don't have a strong, full color quality, and do not
well.
The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely
faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places,
sickly sulfur tint in others.
Adapted from Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst, The Painter in Oil and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpape
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【Explanation】: This question is asking us to determine between two passages, which one implies a feeling of disgust. Tone refers to an author’s attitude towards the subject, often conveyed through word choice and detail utilization. The words selected and detailed in the first passage indicates that the speaker feels the color yellow is challenging to work with for an artist due to inherent issues with texture and consistency. While it may indicate frustration, it does not express a being "disgusted". However, in the second passage, the spirit explicitly refers to the color as "repellent," and "almost revolting;" the word choices portray a critique of the color clearly that implies disgust. Hence, the second passage has a more disgusted tone towards the color.

【Answer】: B.