Read this claim and counterargument: claim: animals are not treated well in zoos counterargument: survival in the wild is difficult. zoos give animals safer lives. which statement is the best response to this counterargument? a. animals will have even safer lives once the zoos have more money to spend on their animals. b. zoos give animals even safer lives by creating enclosures that provide more room c. zoos still need to treat animals better, because some of them are endangered. d. zoos may protect animals from being killed in the wild, but their lives are not much better if they're suffering.

The best response to the counterargument is option D “Zoos may protect animals from being killed in the wild, but their lives are not much better if they're suffering.” since the focus of the counterargument is that in the zoo, animals are safer. The best response is to show that even if they are safer, animals' lives are not better if they are locked in a zoo and they are not happy there. Difference between living safer and living better, even if it implies facing the dangers in the wild.  

The other options focus on the improvements the zoo has to make to give animals a better life in the zoo.

D (apex): zoos mau protect animals from being killed in the wild, but their lives are not much better if they're suffering

Explanation:

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)

ccd puts the honeybee populations and crop health at risk.

the above detail from paragraph 2 supports the inference about honeybee.