Read the passage. All students should complete some type of post-secondary education after high school graduation. Setting this goal and reaching it prepares students for patterns of lifelong goal-setting and teaches them some very important life lessons. People who don't set personal goals are like rafts being drift at sea. They never know where they are or where they are going. Goal-setting teaches students that having a set destination gives their lives purpose and structure. Goals motivate them to turn their thoughts, dreams, and ideas into reality. They learn new things and how to accomplish their goals. Students who stay rue to their goals also learn that some things are worth waiting for. The Key? Keeping the persona; ship on course.

Which statement best expresses the claim?
A. Having a specific goal is like having a life raft on a journey
B. It is important for students to continue their education after high school
C. Reaching a destination is more important than having a goal
D. It is necessary that students strive to graduate from high school

Historical fiction is concerned with depicting historical figures and events in a new light. in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest," which two sentences most clearly describe historical elements? policles sprang readily to his feet at the challenge, and the great company making way for him to pass, he found himself a minute later standing in his unkempt garb, with his frayed and weather-beaten harp in his hand, before the expectant crowd. he stood for a moment tightening a string here and slackening another there until his chords rang true. then, amid a murmur of laughter and jeers from the roman benches immediately before him, he began to sing. he had prepared no composition, but he had trained himself to improvise, singing out of his heart for the joy of the music. he told of the land of elis, beloved of jupiter, in which they were gathered that day, of the great bare mountain slopes, of the swift shadows of the clouds, of the winding blue river, of the keen air of the uplands, of the chill of the evenings, and the beauties of earth and sky. it was all simple and childlike, but it went to the hearts of the olympians, for it spoke of the land which they knew and loved. yet when he at last dropped his hand, few of them dared to applaud, and their feeble voices were drowned by a storm of hisses and groans from his opponents. he shrank back in horror from so unusual a reception, and in an instant his blue-clad rival was in his place. if he had sung badly before, his performance now was inconceivable. his screams, his grunts, his discords, and harsh jarring cacophonies were an outrage to the very name of music.