Directions: Select the correct answers. Which sentences best represent the theme of the passage?
It is important to love and support family.
Character is built through selflessness and not personal achievements.
People value good character over talent.
It is important to aim high in order to succeed.
Extra-curricular activities are very important.
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Character is built through selflessness and not personal achievements.

People value good character over talent.

Explanation:

The second and third sentences are the ones that best represent the theme of the passage.

Rosie is the youngest of five children, and it seems like she is the only unremarkable one. All of her siblings have some sort of talent, while she doesn't seem to consider such things important. There is way more depth to her character than to her siblings'. They are described as solely focused on their achievements, while she is there to always help everyone and doesn't mind it. She is selfless, and it seems like she has more potential than her shallow siblings.

This is what their aunt notices, which is why she chooses Rosie as her companion. She values good character over talent, knowing that Rosie will be there for her if she ever needs her.

today we'd use social media to quickly spread a controversial idea, but in the eighteenth century, the printed pamphlet was highly effective. and thomas paine took full advantage of it. on january 9, 1776, when paine published his pamphlet, "common sense," he wanted to push the american people toward independence from britain. it ultimately ignite the american revolution. thomas paine argued that the monarchy was evil and should be rejected as a form of government. to underscore his point, he cited the bible to argue his case -- in judges 8: 22-23: "the israelites said to gideon, 'rule over us, you and your son and your ' gideon told them, 'i will not rule over you. the lord will rule over you'" (nrsv).

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.