Ben is usually a logical person, but he recently failed an important test for veterinary school and is now consumed with negative thoughts and self-criticisms. he's so upset that he can't even think about what to do next. he hates writing about his feelings, so he doesn't know what to do to cheer himself up. what would be the best strategy to keep ben committed to his goal?
if he likes to talk, he should call a friend and explain what happened.
if he likes to read, he should find an inspirational book about not giving up.
he should make sure his diet stays balanced during this stressful time.
he should forget about going to veterinary school and find something else to do.

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.