Reading skills test:

roger and tara are planning a day at the beach with their kids mark, kyle, and becca. roger packs a lunch for the family, with turkey sandwiches for everyone except kyle, who only seems to like peanut butter and jelly. tara is busy making sure that becca has her asthma inhaler, and that the family has enough sun screen to last the entire day. mark, the eldest, is his dad by packing the family van, and by securing the beach chairs to the roof.

who has asthma?

mark
kyle
becca
tara

The correct answer is Becca.

Explanation

Asthma is an illness that affects the respiratory system. This asthma causes inflammation in the respiratory tracts, and due to this, people with asthma experience chest pain and difficulties to breath. One of the most common medicines to decrease asthma symptoms is the inhaler because this contributes to the expansion of the respiratory tract.

According to this, it is likely Becca suffers from asthma because in the text it is explained "Tara is busy making sure that Becca has her asthma inhaler" which suggests Becca needs an inhaler and this is only possible if she has asthma as otherwise, she would not need an inhaler. So, the correct answer is Becca.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

there is no paragraph seven here.