33. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would best introduce the topic
to the audience and help set up the main
argument of the passage?
(A) The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), originally known as
the Communicable Disease Center, is a
federal agency that was founded in 1946.
(B) According to a recent report from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Americans are not
getting enough sleep.
(C) In 2015 the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) issued a study
indicating that wearable technology such
as fitness trackers are not hazardous to
people's health.
(D) When I woke up the other morning and
checked my fitness tracker, I was
disappointed to see that I only got five
hours of sleep the night before.
(E) A recent study by researchers from Korea
and the United States examined the
accuracy of a number of different fitness
trackers that are commonly used to
measure sleep patterns.

E

Explanation:

what motivates odysseus to tell a lie to the cyclops

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.