Claim: hybrid cars are better for the environment than
conventional cars.
counterclaim: hybrid batteries will pollute the landfills
when they can no longer deliver power to the cars.
which of the following is the most relevant rebuttal to the counterclaim?
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a. manufacturers are developing recycling plans to meduce the
number of hybrid batteries that make it to landfills.
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b. using less gasoline per mile compensates for the dead batteries
in the landfills so hybrids are still better than gasoline-powered
vehicles.
c. it doesn't really matter how many batteries are in the landfills as
long as the carbon dioxide emissions are kept down.
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d. even though the hybrid batteries don't last forever, they are
expected to last for at least 100,000 miles of driving.

In the excerpt of puck’s speech shown here, how many couplets do you see? if we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear. and this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream,

That alligator hungry. vittles very scarce that time a season. his belly be pinchin him hard, now. but bruh deer is fat, and so he is in heavy trouble. the alligator there in front of him. the beagles there behind him. what bruh deer gone do? he sees the alligator and he hears the beagles. how does the author readers understand what the word pinchin means?

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.