Read the passage. (1) Ask young people today if they know of anyone
who has had smallpox, and they might ask, "What's
smallpox?" (2) That is because this disease was
eradicated from the planet decades ago, thanks to
vaccinations. (3) Despite the obvious effectiveness of
vaccination, opponents of this procedure argue that
without adding anything potentially harmful to their
bodies. (4) Still, the American Academy of Pediatrics
says that vaccines can be 99 percent effective, and
the Centers for Disease Control claims that, over a 10-
year period, vaccines allowed 322 million children to
avoid illnesses. (5) So the next time someone tells you
that vaccines are poisoned apples that will lead to a
fate like Snow White's, counter their argument with the
facts. (6) The bottom line is that vaccines are safe to
use and save lives.

How can the writer add parallelism in this passage?

A. by changing the phrase "young people” to “most
people” in sentence 1

B. O by deleting the words obvious and potentially from
sentence 3

C. by deleting “save lives" and adding the phrase
"easy to administer" to the end of sentence 4

D. by shortening the passage to only five sentences
by removing sentence 5

i cannot see any of the options

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.