Read this claim and counterclaim. Claim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit should be brought back.

Counterclaim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit is useless, because people drive as fast as they want.

Which evidence best addresses the counterclaim?

A. a newspaper article about the millions of speeding tickets issued
B. statistics showing that people tend to drive just five miles above the speed limit
C. a story about a relative who always drives at the speed limit
D. a study finding that fewer accidents occur at lower highway speeds

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.a large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered, though its lower end was still embedded. as soon as ogilvy saw me among the staring crowd on the edge of the pit he called to me to come down, and asked me if i would mind going over to see lord hilton, the lord of the manor. the growing crowd, he said, was becoming a serious impediment to their excavations, especially the boys.which context clues effectively indicate the meaning of the word excavations as it is used in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)edge of the pitamong the staring crowdhad been uncoveredwas still embedded