Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. they all wore sweaters and shirt waists with round dutch collars. it was a pattern. he liked to look at them from the front porch as they walked on the other side of the street. he liked to watch them walking under the shade of the trees. he liked the round dutch collars above their sweaters. he liked their silk stockings and flat shoes. he liked their bobbed hair and the way they walked. the author’s short, descriptive sentences reflect krebs’s thought process and his feelings about the girls. illustrate the anger that krebs feels toward the people in his town. express the shame that krebs feels for lying to the girls. demonstrate krebs’s hopes and dreams for the future.

Read this passage: many manufacturers prefer plastic as a material for containers because it can be molded into many shapes. but plastic is not very strong. it must be fused with glass or steel for strength. it is also not very durable. even the strongest plastic can break under enough pressure. the biggest disadvantage to using plastic is that it does not decompose. while plastic can be recycled, doing so is tedious and difficult. while it may be more expensive and difficult to work with, aluminum is a much stronger building material with far greater tensile strength. it conducts electricity because it is metal. best of all, aluminum is very easy to recycle. even if it is thrown away, it decomposes much more quickly than most manufacturing materials. how does the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern of the passage support the author's purpose? a. the passage gradually leads up to the point about decomposition to inform the reader about the importance of recycling plastics. b. the passage lists the advantages and disadvantages of each material to make a case for the use of plastic and not aluminum in containers. c. the passage begins with a description of plastic's problems in order to call attention to the good qualities of aluminum. d. the passage shows the superiority of aluminum in order to make a case for the production of stronger plastics.