Help plis by Janet Costa Bates
What is weird about Rica
auditioning for the talent show?
D She realizes she has a talent.
She has not planned to try out.
Waiting to audition for the school talent show is not
the best time to realize that you have no talent. None. But
hadn't intended to audition.
1) She knows it is not the best time.
She messes up while waiting.
So why was I trying out?
Because I'm forgetful, and if I do have a talent, it's for
messing things up.
Like forgetting my brand new jacket on the playground
today.
Before I left the house this morning, my mother looked
me straight in the eyes and said, "Rica. Do. Not. Lose. This.
Jacket." Each word sent a shock wave through my body.

Tia and lin had been best friends since kindergarten. both avid soccer players, the girls decided to try out for the high school team together. unfortunately, there was just one open spot, so only one of the girls would be chosen. they both worked hard, and on tryout day, they did their best. when the team roster came out, lin was excited to see that she had made the team but sad that tia had not. tia was happy for her friend and vowed to work harder so she would make the team the next year. which sentence is the exposition of the passage

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?

Which poems include the theme that memories of beautiful natural places benefit the people who recall them? "to spring" and "lines written in early spring" "to autumn" and "to a butterfly" "to summer" and "the human seasons" "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and "lines on a beautiful spring in a village"