Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.

Tension between the two sides escalated until June 1948, when the Soviets blocked all western access to the capital. In this first real crisis of the Cold War, the West was not going to be denied by the Soviets.

If the underlined word were replaced with the word "event,” the tone of the excerpt would be

more resentful.
more intellectual.
less intense.
less objective.

Respuesta :

Answer: D) Less intense.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles, the word "crisis" gives the excerpt an intense and concerning tone, if this word were replaced with "event" the tone would be less intense, so the correct answer is option D.

Answer:

D edg 20201 (less intense)

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