HELP PLS!! 1. Read the passage below, and answer the question that follows.

Once a gentleman, whose name I have forgotten, sent me a collection of fossils—tiny mollusk shells beautifully marked, and bits of sandstone with the print of birds' claws, and a lovely fern in bas-relief.

Which of the following phrases provides the best clue to the meaning of the word fossils?

"gentleman, whose name I have forgotten"
"a lovely fern in bas-relief"
"tiny mollusk shells beautifully marked"
"sandstone with the print of birds’ claws"
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.

2. Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.

Which of the following pieces of evidence would best support the claim Keller is making in this passage?

the deaf child does not learn in a month, or even in two or three years, the numberless idioms and expressions used in the simplest daily intercourse.
In a flash, I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head. This was my first conscious perception of an abstract idea.
From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as she would speak to any hearing child;
Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.