A) The brutal climatic conditions of the Antarctic prevent female emperor penguins from producing more than one egg a year.
B) During the bitter Antarctic winter, male emperor penguins protect unhatched eggs, while females hunt for food.
C) A major difference between emperor penguins and other species of birds is that females rather than males are responsible for food gathering.
D) Without their substantial body fat, emperor penguins could not feed their young during harsh Antarctic winters.
11. According to information presented in the passage, the relationship between male and female emperor penguins is best characterized by
A) indifference to each other's needs.
B) female dominance resulting from their role as food gatherers.
C) a competitive struggle for survival.
D) a clear division of responsibilities between males and females.
12. The author calls emperor penguins wonderful animals because
A) they are superb swimmers.
B) they can survive under extreme cold
C) their way of protecting their eggs is really amazing.
D) they are very good at catching fish.
Although Dorothy Wordsworth was convinced that her journal entries were not literature, they were seamlessly incorporated by her brother William into some of his most famous poems, altered only by his use of the first-person pronoun, the "I." The important question concerning the relationship between Dorothy and William, however, is not whether William's borrowings constituted exploitation, but rather how the relationship contributed to Dorothy's inability to conceive of herself as a writer. Traditionally in literature, the authorial self, the "I," is identifiably masculine. The dominated "other" is feminine. In William's poems, the "other" is usually Nature, often personified as Dorothy. While these literary roles helped to sustain the close relationship between the two in real life, they also reinforced Dorothy's acceptance of the norms, which defined her as "other." Thus, her access to authorial self-consciousness was blocked not just by the fact of her gender, but also by her accepted role in her brother's life and poetry.
13. The passage is primarily about answering which of the following questions?
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