The following introduction is from a previous draft of Aiko’s essay. Aiko would like to replace the underlined sentence with a sentence that better grabs readers’ attention and introduces her main idea. Which of these would be the BEST replacement for the underlined sentence? Lots of different people take risks. Even if a risk leads to failure, there is always a lesson to learn. There are lessons for the people who have taken the risks, but there are also lessons for people who learn about them. Readers can learn a lot from the risks taken by Frederick Douglass, the Challenger crew, and Phineas Gage.
Answer choices for the above question

A. Have you ever taken a risk that didn’t work out?

B. I don’t like taking risks.

C. Sometimes people should not take risks.

D. Phineas Gage took a risk.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.