Question 9(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (MC)
Read the summary paragraph for the article on service and answer the question that follows:
Service improves society, impacting the helpers as well as those needing assistance. It means being an active participant in one's community, taking action
where it can be of benefit. Every person should make it a priority to serve at least two hours per week. It's an extremely important civic responsibility that is
invaluable to citizens most in need. Service creates improved communities where people care about each other.
Which sentence in this summary restates the thesis of the article?
O Service improves society, impacting the helpers as well as those needing assistance.
O It means being an active participant in one's community, taking action where it can be of benefit.
© Every person should make it a priority at serve at least two hours per week.
O it's an extremely important civic responsibility that is invaluable to citizens most in need.

the correct answer is "tan believes that nonstandard english can make family communication difficult". raising children across cultures can sometimes be challenging, especially when the values and expectations are from different cultures. this can make it difficult to feel a sense of belonging to any community.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

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)

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.