On an exam, a student is asked to write an argumentative essay about skydiving. which sentence would make the best thesis statement for the student’s essay? approximately two million people skydive each year. skydiving can take place all over the world from the united states to foreign countries like china and brazil. although fewer people die from skydiving than driving a car, skydiving is one of the most dangerous sports. skydiving is a sport in which people 1. jump from an airplane, 2.perform tricks in the air, and 3.eventually land on the ground using a parachute.

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)