Read the sentence then answer the question.

she didn't care that much about fishing; it was the chance to hear grandpa's stories that made her yearn to go.

what does the word yearn mean in this sentence?

a. desire
b. refuse
c. learn
d. plead

i am not sure if it is a or d. .

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

In mandatory military service in america one of the main arguments states that americans should share benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.