What would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend? That's what the City Council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own. Last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair. One reader suggested expanding the library. I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Which best represents the author's main argument?

What would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend?

I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair.

That's what the City Council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own.

I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Explanation:

An argument is the main point being stressed by the author, and it is usually supported by a claim, a report or evidence. The main argument can be located anywhere in the writeup.

In the given essay, the writer started with a question of what a City could do with an extra $5 million. The second sentence saw him explaining the source of the information which is the City Council budget. The next two sentences show different suggestions from different people.

The last sentence highlights his main argument which is that the $5 million dollars should be used to improve the zoo.

the answer is the last one

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)