What is the overall tone of this passage?
Which words help to establish the tone?
How do the words create the tone?

i believe the answer is thesis, reasons, evidence, counterclaim, conclusion

a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)