Read the excerpt from an article published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Drinking water can prevent dehydration, a condition that can cause unclear thinking, result in mood change, cause your body to overheat . . . and kidney stones.

Which personal connection is most relevant to the topic?

I read in a medical book that kidney stones can be very painful for a person.
I have tried to drink more water, but I just prefer something with some flavor.
Yesterday when I was at the train station, I saw them installing stations for refilling water bottles.
The other day, I did not drink much water, and I struggled to focus on my math homework.

2. which of the following topics would be too broad for a speech lasting 5 to 10 minutes?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination