20 ! which lines from book 13 of homer's odyssey depict the theme of disguise? a. "this then, i doom: to fix the gallant ship, a mark of vengeance on the sable deep; to warn the thoughtless, self-confiding train, no more unlicensed thus to brave the main. ." b. "if that low race offend thy power divine (weak, daring creatures! ) is not vengeance thine? go, then, the guilty at thy will chastise." he said. c. but when the morning-star with early ray flamed in the front of heaven, and promised day; like distant clouds the mariner descries fair ithaca's emerging hills arise. d. "ye gods (he cried), upon what barren coast, in what new region, is ulysses toss'd? possess'd by wild barbarians, fierce in arms? or men whose bosom tender pity warms? " e. besides, minerva, to secure her care, diffused around a veil of thickened air; for so the gods ordain'd to keep unseen his royal person from his friends and queen;

a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.