Read the passage. which stage of plot is this?
alex got to the tryout game an hour earlier than his coach said to be there. maria was already at the field, too, stretching and getting ready for the girls' tryouts. alex and maria were longtime rivals; they had played soccer against each other for years in the park in their neighborhood. seeing maria made alex even more determined to succeed in his tryouts. he was feeling even more nervous as he started doing his warm-ups.

a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
d. falling action

the choice that is not a technique that you should use to come up with ideas for the topic of a research project is, writing about academic subjects that are not interesting to you. this does not belong to the techniques to come up with ideas because having no interest in a certain topic will lose your drive to come up with better ideas. it gives no room for improvement and acquiring of new ideas and information. 

explanation:

the answer is the last one

go

explanation:

because it can't be a slow, i would say possibly whoa, but there's nothing too surprising about orange juice, and because it tastes awesome it's a go drink, not food.