11. A student is writing a response to Kennedy's speech. Which thesis statement below makes the BEST use of transition words?
A. Our country was willing to send people of any race to war; our country was not willing to
let people of any race attend our colleges and universities without fear.
b. Despite our willingness to send people of any race to fight our wars, our nation was
unwilling to let those same people attend public colleges without the threat of
persecution.
C. We were willing to send people of any race to war, but we were not willing to send them
to our colleges and universities free from threat of persecution.
d. Compared to our willingness to send people of any race to fight our wars, we could not
allow people of any race to attend our colleges and universities without fear.

She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.