Question 21 of 23 Read the passage and then answer the question:
Are you ready to become a soldier? That depends. Do you
have the fitness to march 20 miles with a full pack? Do you
have the endurance to work 12-hour shifts in the desert
sun? Do you have the strength of character to stand
against America's enemies? Then maybe, just maybe,
you've got what it takes.
Which sentence best describes the message of the passage?
O A. Excellent physical fitness is required to become a soldier.
O B. Becoming a soldier requires one to pass difficult trials.
O C. The military can be dangerous, but it's also rewarding.
O D. Anybody with a clean record can join the armed forces.
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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion