Read the paragraph. Do you realize that your lead pencil is not lead at all? if it were. It would cost more. Today, pencils are made of graphite, which is cheaper,
darker, and harder than lead. Pencils used to cost about a nickel. Now, each one costs closer to 20 cents. But it is still a bargain, for one pencil can
draw a line 39 miles long. Not many ballpoint pens that cost two dollars and more would last that long!
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
01. Pencils are a bargain for the money.
02. Pencils are no longer made of lead.
O 3. Graphite pencils make darker lines.
O 4. Pencils cost about 20 cents each today.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.