1. PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?
A Over the past few years, MTV has become more focused on making money rather than promoting artists.
B MTV failed to reach its true potential by refusing to widen
its variety of artists and content.
OC Viewers of MTV long for the channel's pervious focus on
music videos rather than the reality shows they show
today.
D MTV's evolution over the decades has changed the way
people experience music and television.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

answer: a

explanation:

read the following excerpt from “greece” by oscar wilde.

the sea was sapphire [colored], and the sky

burned like a heated opal through the air;

we hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair

for the blue lands that to the eastward lie.

which words does the poet include to the reader visualize the scene?

“the sea was sapphire”

“through the air”

“was blowing fair”

“to the eastward lie”

the answer is a hoped this

the correct answer would b,   to show that she was very influential in the democratic party.