1. PART A: Which of the following best summarizes a central theme of the text? A Friendship is an important support system to young adults. B Identity must come from within a person, not from what others tell you to be. C Growing up is complicated and challenging, but is ultimately worth it for what can be accomplished. D People, especially young people, should resist the social pressure to obey other people's rules.

The correct answer is C: Growing up is complicated and challenging, but is ultimately worth it for what can be accomplished.

Explanation:

In his text called "If", Rudyard Kipling tries to support younger generations in their growing up, by explaining different challenges and obstacles they will face during that process. However, he encourages young people to pursue their desires, but without forgetting how to be honest and objective.  

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

this need to be done in 15 minutes kind of passed the 15 minutes by now sorry dude but i can list some of my thoughts down for you : (