Subjunctive mood is the answer
Answer: 1 is c 2 is It has a painful sting. 3 is Local businesses make bigger donations to charities. 4 is a personal experience. 5 is It will increase local traffic.
Explanation:
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This text is about homeschooling. The author's purpose is to answer some of the most important questions about homeschooling and explain its main advantages and disadvantages.
In order to achieve his/her objective, the author uses a well-structured organizational pattern which consists of an introductory part, where he/she introduces the topic and reveals his/her main objective: to highlight the pros and cons of homeschooling. In the central part, he mentions some advantages of homeschooling, while in the next passage tries to explain the biggest disadvantages of homeschooling. In the last passage, he mentions other important questions he will try to answer and uses those questions to invite the lecturers to read his book.
Text features and the organizational pattern are efficiently combined in order to help the readers regarding homeschooling, and make them understand both its advantages and disadvantages in a logical, well-structured and professional way. On the other hand, he offers some very important answers that could be considered necessary for all those readers who are searching for answers when it comes to homeschooling.
The sentence that best reveals the context is: "With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right."
By reading "...the end of the cold war...", the reader infers the time the story is set in. The Cold War started after the Second World War (1945) and ended in 1991 with the end of the Soviet Union.
In addition, by reading "...the left side of the hyphen - African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American - would overwhelm the right", readers can deduce that the author is referring to the US and its fear of loosing a sense of nationalism and unity among its diverse population.
In all, the setting is the US in the early 90's because of the reference to the end of the Cold War and the fear of not being unified anymore.
