Read the following passage and answer the question.

championships were coming up and the underdog team had made the playoffs! their first game was a surprise to everyone when the underdog team beat the other one by 20 points! tonight was the semi-finals, and if the underdogs won, it would be the best their team had ever done.

based on the previous passage, what is the most likely outcome of the game?

the underdogs will win.
the underdogs will lose badly.
the two teams will tie.
the underdogs will lose, but only by a couple of points.

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Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?