Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference. now jesse paz was proposing to take away the thing neto loved most, to turn him into just another big kid at school and maybe even ruin his chance for a college scholarship, all because a few jer(k)s had said things that turned jesse off. neto didn't answer for a while. finally he said, "i've never heard anyone say those things, jesse," and walked away. but jesse's words stayed with neto. what if it were true? could he really perform before people who felt that way about him? could he represent a school that would let it happen? in the story, racism is at the heart of the problem. which idea complicates the conflict? neto does not want to stop playing football for his school. neto does not believe jesse’s claims about the football fans. neto does not want to lose his chances of getting into a good college. neto does not want to lose his friendship with jesse.

Neto does not want to stop playing football for his school.

Neto knows that if he believes what Jesse says about what people are saying he should agree with Jesse and lose the one thing Neto loved the most. This internal conflict is shown by the questions he asks himself at the end of the excerpt. Neto does not want to believe that people have said those things, but deep down he knows Jesse is telling the truth. In this excerpt Neto's friendship with Jesse is not in question. Also, even though he doesn't WANT to beleive Jesse's claims, he still knows Jesse is telling the truth. Option C is also wrong because A is better. There are many reasons why he does not want to stop playing football and C is just one of them.

A). Neto does not want to stop playing football for his school.

Explanation:

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

explanation:

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate.