2. Which detail best supports the inference made in question number one? A. "Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown grey leaves in an electrical wind." b. "The empty chairs faced each other between the silent wall, and the music played." c. "The five spots of paint - the man, the woman, the children, the ball - remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer." d. "The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud."

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.