Refer to, "a friend in need"

part a

which statement best describes a central idea in this narrative?

a.)when people publicly commit to be of service, they are more likely to follow through.

b.)in times of tragedy, it is difficult to determine how best to be of service.

c.)young people tend to look to older people to take action in times of tragedy.

d.)in times of crisis, people prefer to be alone.

part b

which detail from the text best to shape the central idea in part a?

a.)“finally, he said, “i don’t know what to do. i guess i should tell him to let me know if he needs anything, but that doesn’t feel like enough.”’

b.)‘“i thought you might have too much going on already. i saw everyone post online.” martin said, “i don’t think anyone wanted to be in the way today, so i’m glad you came.”’

c.)“he explained to her that martin’s mom had died, and told her how he felt about his friend’s loss. “what do you plan to do for him? ” his mother asked.”

d.)“he wondered how many people would actually show up to out and how many would simply hope that enough others did.”

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.