Which phrase from the excerpt contains words with strong connotations that help describe the seriousness of the situation?
"handing them a death sentence"
"abrogates international conventions we have signed"
"turned its back on the 52,000 children"
"legitimate refugees"

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

Read the following excerpt from carrie chapman catt's address to congress, women's suffrage, 1917.woman suffrage is inevitable. suffragists knew it before november 4, 1917, opponents afterward. threedistinct causes made it inevitable.use context clues or a dictionary to select the best definition for catt's use of suffrage.© an advancementa petitionsa right to votean ecclesiastical prayer

Audens musee des beaux arts uses lcarus's drowning as an example of which element of human nature