3 Select two sentences from paragraph 14 of Passage 2 that support the idea that the current generation
of baby boomers are better off financially than their parents.
A "Beginning in 2000, boomers started turning 50 at the rate of just under 10,000 a day."
B "Already, more than 14 million boomers are 50 and up, and some aren't waiting until 55 to take
early retirement."
"It's a well-educated crowd: Nearly 90 percent of boomers graduated from high school, and
more than a quarter have at least a bachelor's degree."
D "More than three quarters own homes, and 73 percent have some form of investments."
E "And the eldest among them have money: A recent AARP report on the 50-plus generation
shows those in the top quartile had a median income of $100,000 and a median net worth of
$360,000."
Ok

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

What is mostly clearly a disadvantage of living in a world dominated by the presence of televisions according to niel postman?