Part A Which statement best summarizes the central idea of the text?

Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Life is too unpredictable to make plans, so it is better to always live in the moment.

The best parts of life come from misfortune, so one should appreciate every obstacle.

Life does not always go according to plan, but sometimes change leads to new opportunities.
Question 2
Part B

Which line from the text best supports the analysis in Part A?

"But there’s no doubt that some misfortunes turn into pivotal moments that can alter the course of a person’s life for the better."

"'You must really love what you do here,' she said. 'I can tell you care about this place and the patients we visited.'"

"At lunch, Alma sat across from me, even though by then several other regular volunteers had arrived and offered to take her out for real food rather than subjecting her to the cafeteria fare."

"Alma and I have been together for 30 years now, and I still wonder what that other life—the one in which my letter said 'congratulations'—might look like."

here is the passage

Part A

Which statement best summarizes the central idea of the text?

Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Life is too unpredictable to make plans, so it is better to always live in the moment.

The best parts of life come from misfortune, so one should appreciate every obstacle.

Life does not always go according to plan, but sometimes change leads to new opportunities.
Question 2
Part B

Which line from the text best supports the analysis in Part A?

"But there’s no doubt that some misfortunes turn into pivotal moments that can alter the course of a person’s life for the better."

"'You must really love what you do here,' she said. 'I can tell you care about this place and the patients we visited.'"

"At lunch, Alma sat across from me, even though by then several other regular volunteers had arrived and offered to take her out for real food rather than subjecting her to the cafeteria fare."

"Alma and I have been together for 30 years now, and I still wonder what that other life—the one in which my letter said 'congratulations'—might look like."

here is the passage

A Complication or Two

The rejection letter from my Ivy League school of choice was the first major obstacle I encountered in my grand 10-year plan. It was not the last. I was 17, and at the time quite certain that nothing would derail me from my grandiose future. I planned to achieve everything my parents expected, and more. The first step was supposed to have been attending my parents’ alma mater, graduating with honors, and then moving on to law school without pausing to let my peers—or competitors—catch me. To say that’s not how it went is a gross understatement.

Needing a distraction in my moment of crisis, I decided to pick up another couple of hours of volunteer service. I rode the subway to Tri-Valley Hospital with that rejection letter wrinkled in my right fist. I probably should have left it at home, but I couldn’t bring myself to put it down. I’d spent so many hours volunteering at Tri-Valley to build my community service résumé that the trek there felt like it was accomplished on auto-pilot rather than through any active involvement on my part.

Alma was a new volunteer that morning, and I felt grateful for her presence, though I suppose I really didn’t pay much attention to her. Mostly, I was relieved to have something to focus on, other than the big fat rejection letter swelling in my pocket. I showed Alma the volunteer wing, which was really just a room with a few lockers, a microwave, and a lot of large posters with rules and cautionary messages. She shadowed me on that shift, and together we delivered food trays, chatted with bed-ridden patients who didn’t have visitors that morning, and carried out a number of fairly tedious tasks. I forgot Alma’s name three times and had to apologize. It was a unique enough name that I shouldn’t have forgotten once, but the rejection letter was burning a hole in my pocket and apparently in my mind.

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