Select the correct text in the passage. marcy is running for student body president. which sentence in this excerpt from her campaign speech uses parallel structure? hi, i’m marcy! many of you know me from your ninth grade classes. i’m running for student body president because i know i can make a positive difference for you, my fellow students, and for the school. i think i will make a good president because i am honest, trustworthy, and i’m behaving responsibly. i will set a good example for the school. i have many plans for the student council, such as making the council more organized, to ensure everyone has a voice, and i’ll be managing meetings more efficiently. i will take your suggestions into consideration and try to implement as many as possible. i will convince the school board to install vending machines with healthier snacks in the school cafeteria and ensuring that they review the cafeteria lunch menu to include healthier meal options. a healthy student body is a happy student body! i also plan to organize more school dances and give my fellow students more opportunities to interact socially.

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.