The pair of verb forms which correctly completes the sentence is the following one:
A. are; appears.
The complete sentence would look like this:
"Mercury and Venus are relatively close to the sun, and neither Mercury nor Venus appears to support life."
In the first clause, the subject is formed by "Mercury and Venus", which means it is plural, and therefore it requires a plural verb (<em>Mercury and Venus</em> are= <em>They</em> are).
In the second clause, there is a neither...nor construction, and both elements which form the subject (again, <em>Mercury and Venus</em>, but this time used in the construction <u>neither</u><u><em> Mercury </em></u><u>nor</u><u><em> Venus</em></u>) are singular nouns, which means a singular verb must be used: neither Mercury nor Venus <em>appears</em>.
They break them down into separate categories so it is more organized and easier to find what you're looking for when reading it.
The answer is: [C]: "the poet's sorrow and despair" .
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Refer to the entire poem:
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"The Guitar" by Federico Garcia Lorca
The weeping of the guitar
<span> begins.
The goblets of dawn are
smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps
monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh, guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.
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The sentence which contains the best example of using technical vocabulary is C) The score in the tennis game was forty-love.
<em>Love , </em>meaning zero, is only used in tennis.
