Whatys most likely Mrs. Obama's reason for including the following passage in her speech (paragraph 13)? See, I learned respect from how my parents cared for my great aunt and uncle-how my mother would wake up in the middle of the night to
check on my great aunt, how my father would prop himself up against the bathroom sink each morning, leaning hard on his crutches, to give my
great uncle a shave
A To draw sympathy from the audience by detailing the difficulties her family went through
0. To show how she learned that one should sacrifice yourself to help others
To suggest that not everyone can have the amazing success and good fortune that she and her husband have had
D. To explain why her father could not be with them at the graduation

Read the following excerpt from "the city without us" by alan weisman: almost every other compound in nature contracts when frozen, but h20 (water) molecules do the opposite, organizing themselves into elegant hexagonal crystals that take up about 9 percent more space than they did when sloshing around in a liquid state. pretty six-sided crystals suggest snowflakes so gossamer it's hard to conceive of them pushing apart slabs of sidewalk. which statement best describes the effect of the metaphor on the excerpt's meaning? o a. it likens h2o molecules to hexagonal crystals, which are actually larger than people imagine. o b. it makes the frozen crystals seem like friends to the city to contrast with what a deceitful foe they are. o c. it compares the sloshing liquid to a river of water able to push apart the sidewalk o d. it compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having an unexpected strength (apex)