5. Years ago, those who had overseas business which they believed should be discussed personally, took a voyage on a ship and set out across the briny deep. Once
aboard they transacted their affairs, engaging in commercial and social matters or
conducting government business. Today ships and passengers continue to sail the seven
seas, and airplanes soar overhead. But above them all, words speed through the sky -
telephone conversations quickly bring together people who are separated by thousands of
miles.
a. Overseas telephone service today is ruling out all need for overseas travel.
b. Nothing can take the place of person-to-person conversation in settling business,
social, and government problems.
c. Many conversations which once required overseas travel can now be conducted by
telephone
d. Even with modern overseas telephone service people continue to travel abroad by
ship or by plane.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning