Read the following passage and then select the correct answer to the question below: the world with a thousand moons from chapter 1: thrill cruise by edmond hamilton the big jovian scratched his head. in the shifting moonlight his battered green face expressed ignorant perplexity as he stared across the busy spaceport. "that shiny little cruiser there would be just the thing," holk or muttered, looking at the gleaming, torpedo-shaped craft nearby. "it would hold all the stuff we've got to take; and with robot controls we two could run it." "we haven't a chance to get that craft," kenniston told him. "i found out that it's under charter to a bunch of rich earth youngsters who came out here in it for a pleasure cruise. a girl named loring, heiress to loring radium, is the head of the party." which sentence provides the best summary of this excerpt? a. lance kenniston’s companion holk or was a type of alien called a jovian, and his face was green. b. lance kenniston and holk or needed a little cruiser to carry their things to the asteroid off of mars. c. the perfect cruiser for lance kenniston and hold or was being used as a pleasure cruiser for rich earth kids. d. loring was a girl from earth who had a lot of money and liked to take pleasure cruises to other planets in space.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)