Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows. 'My name is Jonathan Cross. I am a member of the basketball team at Carter High School. Because of
budget cuts, our school is unable to pay costs for new uniforms for our team. As a result, the team is seeking
other sponsors to fund our new uniforms 51 am writing to request that you consider sponsoring our team. As
a sponsor, your company name would be featured on our uniforms.
Which of the following topics is introduced by the paragraph?
budget cuts and their negative effects on high school athletics
the team's winning record
the basketball teany's need of new uniforms and their desire for sponsorship
all of the above
none of the above

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man