Read the paragraph below, adapted from a psychology textbook. to investigate the role played by personal relationships in stress and health, psychologists measure the level of social support—the resources provided by other people in times of need (hobfoll & stephens, 1990). repeatedly, researchers have found that socially isolated people have poorer health and higher death rates than people who have many social contacts or relationships (southwick & others, 2005; uchino & others, 1996). in fact, social isolation seems to be just as potent a health risk as smoking, high blood cholesterol, obesity or physical inactivity (cohen & others, 2000). according to the passage, which of the following is the best definition of social support? a. online networks such as facebook b. poor health c. solitary meditation d. resources provided by others in times of need

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.