Read the passage from "Things That Matter.” "Well, without a good ankle, I won’t have a chance at the Olympics,” said Rae hotly.

The young man was suddenly silent. After a moment, he said, "The Olympics?”

"I’m in training for the winter Olympics,” Rae said. "Snowboarding.”

"Wow.” He shook his head. He seemed to be trying to clear it of his own worries so he could think about hers. "The Olympics. No wonder you were mad.”

Which is the best way to summarize the passage?

Jake asks Rae a bunch of questions after she shouts at him.
Rae yells at Jake so much that the poor guy just stops talking.
Rae explains to Jake that she’s in training to compete in snowboarding in the Olympics.
Jake realizes that Rae is mad about falling because she’s in training for the Olympics.

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

In mandatory military service in america one of the main arguments states that americans should share benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

What event triggers victors interest in electricity?