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which words would be the closest to the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph?
during practice, coach kept drilling us over and over on the same moves. he kept telling us that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. if one of us didn’t carry his weight, then the whole team would suffer. each of us needed to put in our best effort for the whole team to work together and be effective.
link, n. contact, connector, knot, ring
choose all answers that are correct.
a.
contact
b.
connector
c.
knot
d.
ring

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.

the punctuation used in this line was exclamation points. exclamation points can show excitement, anxiousness, and etc.