Read the excerpt from "the shepherd's boy and the wolf."
a shepherd's boy was tending his flock near a village, and thought it would be great fun to hoax the villagers by pretending that a wolf was attacking the sheep: so he shouted out, "wolf! wolf! " and when the people came running up he laughed at them for their pains. he did this more than once, and every time the villagers found they had been hoaxed, for there was no wolf at all. at last a wolf really did come, and the boy cried, "wolf! wolf! " as loud as he could: but the people were so used to hearing him call that they took no notice of his cries for . and so the wolf had it all his own way, and killed off sheep after sheep at his leisure.
which statement best represents the moral of this fable?
it is important to think carefully before taking action.
sometimes it is better to be silent than to speak out.
with careful planning, it is easy to fool others.
a liar will not be believed even when telling the truth.

Ineed .. read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. eye contact, also referred to as gaze, is how—and how much—we look at peoplewith whom we are communicating. eye contact has several purposes incommunication. its presence shows that we are paying attention. in addition, how we look at a person reveals a range of emotions such as affection, anger, or fear. moreover, intensity of eye contact may also be used to show dominance. for instance, we talk of someone “staring another person down.” finally, through ou reye contact we can check the effect of our communication. by maintaining our eye contact, we can tell when or whether people are paying attention to us, when people are involved in what we are saying, and what their feelings are about what we are saying. 1. eye contact can be a clue to what we feel and what our listeners feel. 2. our eyes are more important than our ears in effective communication. 3. eye contact can never reveal how much power one person has overanother. 4. sometimes a parent can control children just