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The author's tone

The new scheme has been announced with considerable fanfare. Its targets are ambitious, its funding uncertain, and its timeline, by the admission of its own architects, optimistic. One waits with interest.

The author's tone is best described as:

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Correct answer: C.

Sceptical

Worked solution

  1. The author sets loud announcement against uncertain funding and an admittedly optimistic timeline.
  2. The closing line withholds judgement rather than condemning: that is scepticism, not hostility.
  3. Enthusiastic contradicts the doubts; indifferent ignores the pointed detail the author selects.

Answer: Sceptical.

The idea

Tone lives in word choice. Distinguish degrees: doubtful is not hostile, and critical is not dismissive. Pick the mildest option that still accounts for every loaded word.

Shortcut. Place the tone on a scale from Enthusiastic to Hostile. The loaded list (ambitious, uncertain, optimistic by its architects' own admission) is doubt, but the dry 'One waits with interest' stops short of attack: Sceptical.

Common trap. Hostile tempts because the list of weaknesses reads like criticism, but the author never condemns the scheme; the closing line withholds judgement, which is doubt, not hostility.

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Medium

Target time

~75s

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The author's tone: The new scheme has been announced with considerable fanfare. Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.

Question

The new scheme has been announced with considerable fanfare. Its targets are ambitious, its funding uncertain, and its timeline, by the admission of its own architects, optimistic. One waits with interest.

The author's tone is best described as:

Options

  1. Indifferent
  2. Enthusiastic
  3. Sceptical
  4. Hostile
Show the answer and the worked solution

Correct answer: C. Sceptical

Worked solution

  1. The author sets loud announcement against uncertain funding and an admittedly optimistic timeline.
  2. The closing line withholds judgement rather than condemning: that is scepticism, not hostility.
  3. Enthusiastic contradicts the doubts; indifferent ignores the pointed detail the author selects.

Answer: Sceptical.

The idea

Tone lives in word choice. Distinguish degrees: doubtful is not hostile, and critical is not dismissive. Pick the mildest option that still accounts for every loaded word.

Shortcut. Place the tone on a scale from Enthusiastic to Hostile. The loaded list (ambitious, uncertain, optimistic by its architects' own admission) is doubt, but the dry 'One waits with interest' stops short of attack: Sceptical.

Common trap. Hostile tempts because the list of weaknesses reads like criticism, but the author never condemns the scheme; the closing line withholds judgement, which is doubt, not hostility.

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