Which quote from the text best supports the answer to part a in "What Fear Can Teach Us" By Karen Thompson? As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates. And I think it's no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists. So maybe that's why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. "Don't worry," we like to say to one another. "Don't panic." In English, fear is something we conquer. It's something we fight. It's something we overcome. But what if we looked at fear in a fresh way? What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

This question is incomplete, here´s the complete question.  

PART A: Which of the following best identifies a central idea of the text?

A. While stories are usually based on fiction, fears are based on facts and allow us  to adequately prepare for threatening situations.

B. Fears operate through the imagination much like storytelling does, and we can  learn from our fears just as we can learn from stories.

C. Because the human mind is naturally attracted to dramatic narratives, the most  elaborate fears usually draw the most attention.

D. Basing decisions off of a fear or a story can have disastrous consequences for  ourselves and others, as neither are based on fact.

PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and  grow up. We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not  every earthquake brings buildings down.” (Paragraph 4)

B. “just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears,  and how we choose to read our fears can have a profound effect on our lives.”  (Paragraph 7)

C. “Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead  embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America.”  (Paragraph 9)

D. “Maybe then we’d spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane  crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we  face” (Paragraph 11)

B. Fears operate through the imagination much like storytelling does, and we can  learn from our fears just as we can learn from stories.

B. “just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears,  and how we choose to read our fears can have a profound effect on our lives.”  (Paragraph 7)

Explanation:

Thompson explores how fear affects the decision-making process. She explains that the way we think about the things that scare us is a kind of a story we tell our selves.

Acknowledging ourselves as the authors, as well as "readers" of those stories, can help us better understand that way we decide to express those fears can have a great impact on our experiences and teach us about ourselves.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

its hard for me to see which word is supposed to be in bold. if i knew then i would be able to better.