Which excerpt from “the telephone: a truer tale” best supports the purpose of the text?
1. after all, it has a terrific happy ending in which the hero, alexander graham bell, uses his astonishing new device to transmit the words “mr. watson, come here. i want to see you.”
2. meucci would not allow himself to become discouraged, however. instead, he returned to his lab determined to make his talking machine even better. he worked for many more years and did just that.
3. in 1871, meucci still lacked investors and was unable to pay the $250 patent fee, so he filed a patent caveat instead. a patent caveat cost only $10 and would not allow anyone else to patent the same idea for one full year.
4. on june 11, 2002, one hundred and twenty-six years after bell’s patent was issued, the united states house of representatives passed a resolution recognizing antonio meucci as the true inventor of the telephone.

Consider the text and its central idea. informational text: one privilege that many teens look forward to is the ability to earn a driver’s license. driver’s licensing requirements are not the same in every state. in some states, young people can be fully licensed before their sixteenth birthday. in other states, the privilege to drive has some restrictions until the driver is eighteen years old. in every state, driver education is a required step in earning a license. students might earn a permit, or provisional license, and spend six months to a year driving with an adult in the car. since states are very different based on population, development, and roadways, the laws are different, too. central idea: states makes different laws about licensing drivers with some similar requirements. what supporting detail is most important to include in a summary of this text? teens get excited about learning to drive. in some states, kids can get their license on their birthday. some states are heavily populated, with dangerous roads to navigate. every state includes driver education as part of licensing requirements.