My journalism ! i think its b but not from businesses intensify pitch for 'savviest generation ever' by dave carpenter © 2012 the associated press these were no ordinary panelists to the officials of clothing companies, food giants, media dot-coms and others attending the marketing conference. they were american teen-agers, articulating the consumer habits of a group projected to spend a staggering $155 billion this year. so they applauded the answers of these chicago-area high school students, laughed at every attempted joke and flooded them with questions for an hour. where do you buy things? what books do you like? what's your favorite band? do you prefer tv or the internet? what is the central idea of this passage? (3 points) a. companies want to learn about how teen-agers spend money. b. teen-agers spend billions of dollars a year. c. officials from clothing companies and others go to marketing conferences. d. many people are interested in what teen-agers have to say.

The empire state building was a.constructed by one hundred workers. b.was first lit up by president roosevelt. c.has more than one hundred stories. d took several years to complete.

Match each type of troublesome language with its correct description

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion