When the united states was involved in world war ii, members of the navajo nation made a major contribution to the allied victory. the navajo language, which is difficult to learn, was used as a code to transmit military messages. navajo code talkers enabled allies forces to communicate more securely than ever before, greatly to win the war.
which of the following best summarizes the paragraph?
a)during world war ii, navajo code talkers used their language as a means of transmitting messages, contributing to the allied victory
b)the code enabled allied communication to be extremely secure.
c) the military code was based on the navajo language, which is difficult to learn and win world war ii.
d) the navajo people were involved in world war ii.

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. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.