Excerpt from the state of the union address, 1944 (excerpt ii)
franklin d. roosevelt

2increased food costs, for example, will bring new demands for wage increases from all war workers which will in turn raise all prices of all things including those things, which the farmers themselves have to buy. increased wages or prices will each in turn produce the same results. they all have a particularly disastrous result on all fixed income groups.

3and i hope you will remember that all of us in this government represent the fixed-income group just as much as we represent business owners, workers, and farmers. this group of fixed-income people includes teachers, clergy, policemen, firemen, widows and minors on fixed incomes, wives and dependents of our soldiers and sailors, and old-age pensioners. they and their families add up to one-quarter of our 130,000,000 people. they have few or no high-pressure representatives at the capitol. in a period of gross inflation they would be the worst sufferers.

as it is used in section 3, the word gross is best defined as

a)
extreme.

b)
disgusting.

c)
wrongdoing.

d)
without tax.

Read the passage from animal farm. "that was part of the arrangement! " cried squealer. "jones's shot only grazed him. i could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. the plot was for snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. and he very nearly succeeded—i will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic leader, comrade napoleon. do you not remember how, just at the moment when jones and his men had got inside the yard, snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? and do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that comrade napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'death to humanity! ' and sank his teeth in jones's leg? surely you remember that, comrades? " exclaimed squealer, frisking from side to side. now when squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. at any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle snowball had turned to flee. but boxer was still a little uneasy. how does the characterization of squealer support the author’s purpose? squealer's dramatic accusations draw parallels between him and stalin’s propagandists. squealer's uncertainty shows that he is not a reliable ally of napoleon and is ineffective with messaging. squealer's ability to get the animals to listen to him shows that any animal can rise to be a leader in time. squealer's humble interactions with the animals reflect the importance of equality and cooperation.

Ineed asap plzzz why is the mountain goat known as the poor man's cow? a. it is a cheap source of food. b. it is smaller than a cow. c. it looks like a cow.

Which is the best statement of what the speaker wants? a) to become a political leader b) to no longer have to plant crops c) to be treated fairly and equally d) to move to a country that respects women