Use "swimming builds muscles and you stay healthy" and
"lauren goes swimming" to answer questions 7 and 8.
study the following diagram. it shows ideas from both selections.
ideas from "swimming builds muscles
and you stay healthy"
ideas from
"lauren goes swimming
• swimming is good
exercise
• swimming
can be fun
• swimming can be
scary for some
people
which of the following goes in the blank?
a
some people have swimming parties.
b
taking lessons people learn to swim.
c
swimmers should be careful in the water.
d
the diaphragm gets a lot of work when you swim.

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease

mark twain, real name samuel langhorne clemens, was an american writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. among his novels are the adventures of tom sawyer and its sequel, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the latter often called "the great american novel". wikipedia

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

i have identified the gerund in this sentence by writing it in all capitals.

gerund phrase: writing it in all capitals

gerund use: object of preposition