4. How does the author introduce the United States' women's soccer team in the text? * 15 points
A. The author describes the women's team as surprising Japan with how quickly and easily they scored.
B. The author portrays the women's team as impressed by the size of the crowd.
C. The author describes the women's team as being able to beat Japan, only because of Lloyd's talent.
D. The author portrays the women's team as working harder than the Japanese team.

5. How does paragraph 8 contribute to the development of ideas in the text? *
15 points
A. It shows that Lloyd's siblings gave up playing soccer because Lloyd was better than them.
B. It shows Lloyd's love of soccer and how she was willing to work hard to get good at it.
C. It reveals that Lloyd's parents gave her a lot of freedom as a child.
D. It emphasizes Lloyd's interest in many types of activities, not just sports.

6. What is the relationship between Lloyd's setbacks and later successes? How does this idea support the central idea of the text? *

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next