Which type of context clue can be used to determine the meaning of the underlined word? the crowd in the velodrome waited patiently for the cycling race to begin.

edna is the protagonist of the novel, and the “awakening” to which who lives apart from her husband and children and is responsible only to her as a true confidante for edna despite their considerably different personalities. although robert lebrun is the man whom edna truly loves, arobin satisfies

its probably fingerprint or personality

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.