PLZ ANSWER FASTS 50 points
Read this introductory paragraph from a student essay and then answer the question.

(1) Have you ever felt great fear but decided to face that fear anyway? (2) There is no single definition of courage and more than one way to show it. (3) In Heart of a Samurai, Manjiro is faced with grave dangers. (4) In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William must overcome disbelief and ridicule. (5) Both heroes show tremendous courage.

Which choice best revises sentence 3 so that it contains supporting details?

a. In Heart of a Samurai, Manjiro is faced with many dangers that, considering how difficult and scary they were, I hope to never have to face.

b. In Heart of a Samurai, Manjiro is faced with many of the dangers that others before him have faced.

c. In Heart of a Samurai, Manjiro is presented with grave dangers but faces them with courage.

d. In Heart of a Samurai, Manjiro is faced with grave dangers, such as finding enough food to survive and swimming to the boats filled with barbarians.

Read the passage you won't have a problem finding a gentle or sociable pet at the shelter. you might have the idea that all the animals there have something wrong with them. if they aren't diseased, they must be vicious. "that's just not so," according to toni troy, who volunteers at the ferndale shelter. she says that the majority of its inhabitants are sweet and fearlessly affectionate. good pets are often abandoned by selfish owners who move, have a change in their family situation, or dump the litters after letting their animals breed. sometimes people just decide that they don't want a pet any longer, even if that animal has been with the family for years. other animals wind up at the shelter because they strayed too far from their homes and their families can't find them. which detail is most in revealing that most pets are in shelters due to no fault of their own. a) she reveals that the reader might think there is something wrong with shelter pets. b) she explains that there are gentle, sociable pets at the shelter. c) she says that some pets at the shelter were abandoned by their owners. d) she states that most pets at shelters are "sweet and fearlessly affectionate."

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went

Read this excerpt from mohandas gandhi's "banaras hindu university speech." what is the speaker's purpose a. to persuade his audience to struggle for self-governance through peaceful means b. to urge wealthy indians to act instead of merely talk about poverty c. to inform the audience that the british colonial power is stealing indian resources d. to persuade his audience to renounce materialistic wealth and pursue spiritual wealth