Columnist: the winner of this year's national spelling bee won by correctly spelling the spoken word ursprache, which means "fame" in german. given the richness of our language, why must we resort to words taken from modern foreign languages to challenge our best spellers? ursprache is listed in our dictionary, as are words from many other foreign languages, but future spelling bees should limit themselves to words in our dictionary that have been anglicized in all aspects because spelling english words, not knowledge of linguistics and international phonetics, is the point of these contests.
which of the following can most reasonably be inferred from the argument above?
a)the spelling contest winner knew how to spell most of the anglicized words in the dictionary.
b)foreign words are more difficult than anglicized words for all contestants to spell.
c)spelling contestant winners should be determined by their facility with all aspects of language.
d)to spell foreign words, contestants must recognize the language and know its pronunciation.
e)the english language contains more borrowed words than most other languages.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning