When i was a kid, i took great pleasure in jumping on my bike and riding to the corner candy store about half a mile away. although i had no knowledge of the part the bicycle had played as a vehicle of change for turn-of-the-20th-century women, i was acutely aware that it allowed this 1960s girl a unique measure of independence. on my bike, i could break free of the bonds that held me in my neighborhood to go buy necco wafers and candy necklaces and atomic fireballs. if i felt particularly adventurous, i could even ride a bit farther for a fresh ice-cream cone at applegate farm.
—introduction to wheels of change,
sue macy
what is the central idea of this passage?
the bicycle provided a way for sue macy to buy candy from the local store.
the bicycle provided joy and independence for sue macy at a young age.
the bicycle provided a vehicle of change for the twentieth-century woman.
the bicycle provided exercise for young children in the writer’s neighborhood.

Identify the type of narration used in the excerpt.which words in the excerpt indicate the type of narration?

Eating while you drive a.increases your risk of being involved in a collision b.is only risky with heavily packaged foods c.should only be done with food that can be handled easily

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next