Read the rough-draft paragraph. more than likely, fellow volunteers will have many common interests and ideals. after all, volunteers usually seek opportunities to use their time and talents for issues they care about, and this is often a good starting point for many friendships. as co-volunteers, hours will be spent together learning from one another and inspiring each other while working to achieve a common goal. teaming up with others to solve community problems and making changes for the better, not surprisingly, often leads to long-lasting bonds. which topic sentence should be added to this body paragraph? a)local community programs provide opportunities for volunteers to share their expertise. b)volunteering for local community programs enables people to establish new friendships. c)acquaintances made while volunteering for a project are rarely continued beyond the project’s conclusion. d)every community has programs that will gladly accept the services of enthusiastic volunteers.

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”

According to the police officer, the car accident could not have been avoided.