Read the following paragraph. hector’s soccer team did not play well that afternoon. time and again, they lost the ball to the other team. they could only watch as their opponents scored goal after goal, while hector’s team failed to score a single point. it seemed as though every attempt hector and his teammates made to succeed was futile. hector overheard one of the players telling an onlooker that this was the worst they had ever played. hector knew it had been a bad game, but surely this was an exaggeration. which of the following phrases provides a context clue for the definition of the word futile? failed to score that afternoon scored goal after goal overheard one of the other players

while hectors team failed to score a single point

Explanation:

Would be my guess it’s the only sentence that stated it was a bad game

Failed to score

Explanation:

Context clues is a technique used to determine the meaning of an unknown word in a text by only looking at the surrounding information of that word. The phrase “Failed to score” provides a context clue for the word “futile” because it helps us infer that every attempt Hector and his teammates made to succeed was not successful, it was useless, futile.

i am a strong (insert gender here) my father and his brother were to, they were killed not by the cold, not by the bears or wolves that roam our streets at night, but by the   bolsheviks. we must stand up and fight communism or we all end up dead, starved dehydrated, enslaved. the time is now we must fight. lenin is a dangerous man but he can be stopped. so my comrades we shall siege there weapons tonight on ward. (rides away with ak(not invented yet) and sword in hand while on bear into snowstorm)

the correct answer is option d. none of these. it is noted that options a, b, and c share the same content.

despite the valid answer provided at the last sentence of each of the options, a question/answer format shouldn't include humourous themed responses such as "you bet your thermal pj's we do." - unless of course, the answer is carried out in an informal environment. this could be replaced with a simple "yes" or "it is necessary".

the question should be re-phrased to a more appropiate syntaxis. instead of "do we need the greenhouse effect? ", it should be written as "is the greenhouse effect necessary? " in order to give it a general scope, instead of limiting the answer to the needs of "we" the humans.