Read the excerpt from Outcasts United.
Luma ordered him to stand in goal. She took off her shoes as the boy waited beneath the crossbar, rocking back and forth and growing more anxious by the moment. She asked for a ball, which she placed on the grass. Then, barefoot, as the team looked on, she blasted a shot directly at the boy, who dove out of the way as the ball rocketed into the net. Luma turned toward her team. "Anybody else?" she asked. Take a look at this chart of Luma’s actions listed in chronological order.
Which sentence best fills in the blank? She asks for the ball.
She hears the boy talking about her. She shows off her ball skills.
She rocks back and forth.
Answer:
She asks for the ball
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from Outcasts United, Luma is said to have ordered someone to stand in goal and she took off her shoes and blasted a shot, which the person standing in the goal had to dive out of the way. Luma asks if there was anyone else that wanted to stand in goal.
Therefore, the sentence that best fills in the blank is "she asks for the ball".
Answer:
"I lived in the first century of world wars" is the opening line of "Poem" by Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) an American poet and political activist. Her best-known poems are about social justice, equality and feminism. Her choice of words establishes her anti-war theme and her efforts to oppose war through her poetry: "Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values." She felt her poetry, which would outlive her, would be a message to those "unseen and unborn" who could work to promote peace and justice. "We would try by any means To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, To let go the means, to wake." Here Rukeyser was passing on the baton, as it were, to the generations "beyond ourselves" in the hope that they would be more purposeful peacemakers.
