Imagine you have been assigned an essay about the effects of exercise on teenagers' overall health. You have been asked to research the topic and incorporate your findings in your essay.
Which would be the MOST effective introductory statement for the essay?
A)
B)
I'm a teenager, and I'm pretty healthy, but if you listen to the so-called
experts, I could be healthier.
Video games, movies, and the Internet are fun, so it's no surprise that lots
of teens spend lots of time on these electronic diversions.
Though teens are young and avoid many of the health problems that older
Americans can face, many teens are becoming obese and unhealthy due to
a lack of exercise
None of these choices would serve as an adequate introduction to this
essay, as none of them are on topic or clear enough to provide the type of
introduction that this sort of essay would need
D)

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky