Read the passage. At the turn of the century, the American automobile was still young and could be driven by gasoline engines or steam. The whole course of
the industry would be influenced by a single event. In 1907 at Ormand Beach, Florida, the annual automobile speed trials were in progress. The
steamer started its run, silent except for a low whistle. The speed was rising fast when the steamer hit a bump and lifted, twisting into the air. It
traveled 100 feet through the air before it landed and smashed to pieces, causing the boiler to roll and blowing steam for a mile down the beach.
The rumor began that a steamer was just too fast to stay on the ground.
Which happened right before the steamer went up in the air?
01. The steamer traveled 100 feet.
O 2. The steamer rolled and blew steam for a mile down the beach.
O 3. The steamer hit a bump.
04. The steamer started its run and picked up speed.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning