PART A: Which statement expresses the central idea of the text? A While women initially programmed digital computers, they were pushed out of their jobs in favor of men continuing their work .B Women fell behind men in computer science because boys were often encouraged and enabled to play with personal computers. C When personal computers were developed, the games for boys helped them develop technical skills while the games for girls were useless. D From the very beginning, women were not encouraged to play or work with computers, as technology was considered to be for men.

i believe the answer is: b. mr. head had a long, tube-like face with a rounded open jaw and a short depressed nose.

this is because in the un-revised sentence it said that mr. heads face was long and tube-like, and he had a rounded open jaw. this is not a very grammatically correct because of how it seems to drag on with the and, replaced with, with, makes it sound more fluent in the description.

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.

information must be sent by government offices to local town to be read at town meetings

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conclusions made on the basis of unstated or stated evidence are called inferences