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.
Which information from the excerpt best supports the inference that achievement tests ignore imagination as an element of
language ability?
Tan's mother would not be able to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.
O Tan's mother could think of several ways to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.
O Tan's mother did not allow her to take tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt.
O Tan's mother was disappointed that Tan did poorly on tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt.

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Which war does jonas have a memory about? in the giver.

Write a 250- word essay in which you explain the significance of the different narrative voices in “the way to wealth.” use evidence from both texts to support your response