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Read this story.
One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of red,
juicy grapes hanging from a high branch. "Those look delicious," he said. He
decided to jump up and grab them for a snack. Taking a few steps back, the fox
jumped, but he missed the grapes. "Rats!" he said. He took even more steps
back, ran, and jumped again. But again, he missed the grapes. "One more try,"
he said. This time he took even more steps back, ran as fast as he could, and
jumped with all his might! But yet again, he could not reach the grapes. "Well."
the fox said, turning up his nose, "they're probably sour anyway," and with that
he walked away.
Which of these statements best expresses the theme of the story?
O A. Be happy with what you have.
O B. Overreaching can be dangerous.
O C. It is easy to hate what you cannot have.
O D. The key to happiness is following your dreams.

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.