Jing-Mei's mother wants her daughter to become a prodigy because her friend Lindo Jong's daughter is a prodigy in chess. She is famous, and when seeing other prodigies in magazines and television, Jing-Mei's mother understands that she wants the same thing for her daughter. This generates in Jing-Mei certain displeasure, because she is tired of the comparisons and rivalry.
Jing-Mother understands that America is the land of opportunities, where anyone can succeed and achieve their dreams
I'm guessing the problem was that it was "too long"
The answer is:
The animals <em><u>scrambled </u></em>to get into the barn as the lightning <em><u>struck</u></em>.
In the chosen sentence, both verbs in the different clauses are consistent ad accurate because they are written in the Past Simple tense.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the tense of the verbs is not related to each other: they wrongly combine past and present, and present and future tenses.
The right version of them are the following:
<em>Alexander </em><em>finished </em><em>his math test and </em><em>walked </em><em>to Mr. Smith's desk.
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Sampson and Raina </em><em>watch </em><em>the fireworks and </em><em>comment </em><em>on how beautiful they are.
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The police officer </em><em>rounded </em><em>the corner and pumped his arms harder.</em>