Read the excerpt. I used to like being called a “Rabbit,” after our school mascot, when I ran on our school track team, but I when the district cut our budget.

Choose the phrase that best creates an angry, blaming tone in the sentence.

couldn’t do track
couldn’t run anymore
had to leave the team
was robbed of track

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

Geoffrey is writing a paper investigating friendly-fire incidents in recent us military actions. which paragraph topic would be relevant to his paper and would therefore merit inclusion in his final draft? a) a paragraph criticizing us military actions in the viet nam war b) a paragraph discussing how friendly-fire incidents are investigated c) a paragraph describing what basic boot camp is like for a new army enlistee eliminate d) a paragraph discussing how hard an extended military service can be on a family

Preview the following sentence and identify the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. the brain was riddled with holes, it looked like a sponge. a. bridled c. perforated b. pierced d. b and c select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d mark this and return