1.
read the selection below from gulliver’s travels by jonathan swift and answer the question that follows.

he was the more confirmed in this opinion, because he observed, that as i agreed in every feature of my body with other yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars where nature had no part; so from the representation i had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance in the disposition of our minds.

according to the passage above, what is most similar between the narrator (gulliver) and the yahoos?

the way they think
their strength and speed
their family relationships
the length of their fingernails

2.
read the sentence below and answer the question that follows.

the girls ran around the track during p. e.

which substitution in diction would improve the sentence without changing its meaning best?

replace “track” with “tree-lined neighborhood”
replace “p. e.” with “the citywide track meet”
replace “around” with “through”
replace “ran” with “sprinted”