Mrs. highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the "dante reading" instead of joining them. the girl held a geranium leaf up to her nose and said nothing, but looked knowing and noncommittal.
which statement best summarizes the explicit message in the excerpt?

mrs. highcamp is unfamiliar with the study of dante.

mrs. highcamp wishes her daughter would socialize with her.

mrs. highcamp’s daughter prefers the company of intellectuals.

mrs. highcamp’s daughter is likely to go to the races on the next outing.

Read the excerpt from the code book. without much hope of a theoretical breakthrough, cryptanalysts have been forced to look for a technological innovation. if there is no obvious way to reduce the number of steps required for factoring, then cryptanalysts need a technology that will perform these steps more quickly. silicon chips will continue to get faster as the years pass, doubling in speed roughly every eighteen months, but this is not enough to make a real impact on the speed of factoring—cryptanalysts require a technology that is billions of times faster than current computers. consequently, cryptanalysts are looking toward a radically new form of computer, the quantum computer. if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with such enormous speed that it would make a modern supercomputer look like a broken abacus. the author’s purpose in this paragraph is to convince the readers to pursue a career in analysis. explain the need for faster technology in cryptanalysis. entertain with interesting stories about supercomputers. argue for more money to develop a quantum computer.