Today, the steel beams and girders of the city's skyscrapers are bolted together with special steel bolts and welded together. Compared with riveting, these connections are stronger, more quickly made, and require fewer men to accomplish.

Which choice is the best paraphrase of the text?

a
Steel beams and girders in today’s skyscrapers are constructed with specially made steel bolts. Then, they are welded together. These modern-day connections are put together more quickly and by fewer workers than the ones made in the past by riveting. They are also stronger.
b
Steel beams and girders in modern-day city skyscrapers have stronger connections and are put together more quickly and with fewer workers than connections formed by riveting.
c
Today, the steel beams and girders of the city's skyscrapers are bolted together with special steel bolts and welded together. Compared with riveting, these connections are stronger, more quickly made, and require fewer men to accomplish.
d
Today’s skyscrapers are built using steel bolts that are specially made for skyscraper construction. These bolts are welded together and create stronger connections than those made by riveting.

D

Explanation:

A paraphrase is simply putting the passage into your own words.

First off, eliminate C because that's literally the same thing as the given - which means it's not a paraphrase but an actual quotation.

Now, usually paraphrases are shorter than the original. We might be able to eliminate A from that. Reading A, we see that the sentences are unnecessarily choppy, and it basically reads the same thing as the given except that A broke up some long sentences into short ones. Eliminate A.

We are now left with B and D. Read B. Grammatically, it's a run-on sentence, and you'll see that towards the end of the sentence, it doesn't really make sense: "...and with fewer workers than connections formed by riveting". This makes it sound like the workers are formed by riveting, which obviously is wrong and changes the meaning of the original sentence. So, eliminate B.

Thus, D is the correct answer because it runs smoothly and maintains the same major ideas as the original paragraph.

Hope this helps!

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)