Read the following passage written by a teen hero: I want to be a vocal advocate for nature.
I reject the idea that I am too young to make a difference.
I recently helped a group with a river cleanup.
I was mortified to see the destruction of animals and plants.
When I got home, I composed a letter to my state politicians and asked them to allocate more money to the local river cleanup effort.
I believe my vocation is to help citizens see that we are at a junction.
We can decide to subject nature to abuse, or we can decide to be a benefactor to nature.
I won't let obstacles detract from my mission.

What is the meaning of the word "detract" as it is used in sentence 8?
To join together
To pull in the opposite direction
To make or do the opposite
To step back
Question 2(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(MC)

Using what you know about roots, prefixes, and suffixes, the word "composition" means

the quality of pulling forward
characterized by joining again
a state of being put together
related to carrying back

I want to be a vocal advocate for nature.

I reject the idea that I am too young to make a difference.

I recently helped a group with a river cleanup.

I was mortified to see the destruction of animals and plants.

When I got home, I composed a letter to my state politicians and asked them to allocate more money to the local river cleanup effort.

I believe my vocation is to help citizens see that we are at a junction.

We can decide to subject nature to abuse, or we can decide to be a benefactor to nature.

I won't let obstacles detract from my mission.

What is the meaning of the word "detract" as it is used in sentence 8?

To join together

To pull in the opposite direction

To make or do the opposite

To step back

Question 2(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

(MC)

Using what you know about roots, prefixes, and suffixes, the word "composition" means

the quality of pulling forward

characterized by joining again

a state of being put together

related to carrying back

Explanation:

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.