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read the excerpts from team moon and the nasa article.

but now, because the landing was taking far longer than planned, the fuel was almost gone. mission control wanted neil to take as much time as he needed and fly the lm as near empty as possible only because they wanted him to make the landing. but if he ran out of fuel above the surface, in all likelihood the lm would crash onto the moon.

when it comes time to set eagle down in the sea of tranquility, armstrong improvises, manually piloting the ship past an area littered with boulders. during the final seconds of descent, eagle's computer is sounding alarms.

a reader can best combine the information in the excerpts to

a. understand that neil armstrong had to improvise the landing of the lm, named eagle, while it was dangerously low on fuel.

b. understand that neil armstrong was not in control of the lm, named eagle, while it was being landed on the moon.

c. understand that neil armstrong would crash the lm, named eagle, if he ran out of fuel above the moon’s surface.

d. understand that neil armstrong had to pilot the lm, named eagle, past an area on the moon littered with boulders.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion