Assignment task:
(1) During our daily bouts of pessimism, we can see its constructive role in our lives. (2) In these mild forms, pessimism serves the purpose of pulling us back a bit from the risky exaggerations of our optimism, making us think twice, keeping us from making rash, foolhardy gestures. (3) The optimistic moments of our lives contain the great plans, the dreams, and the hopes. (4) Reality is gently distorted to give the dreams room to flourish. (5) Without these times we would never accomplish anything difficult and intimidating; we would never even attempt the just barely possible. (6) Mount Everest would remain unscaled, the four-minute mile unrun; the jet plane and the computer would be blueprints sitting in some financial vice president's wastebasket. Need Assignment Help?
Question:
The tone of this paragraph can be described as
a. critical but concerned.
b. lighthearted and amused.
c. cynical and disbelieving.
d. serious and positive.