How does the author of "homesick" hook the reader at the beginning of the story? a. she uses the name, age, and physical appearance of the narrator to represent her self-confidence. b. she uses a description of the great wall to represent the narrator's strength. c. she uses figures of speech from the chinese language to represent the narrator's confusion. d. she uses images of the globe and the yangtse river to represent the narrator's feelings.

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. experts have blamed caffeine for bone loss among older women. but a university study of 138 older women found that caffeine had no such effect. in that study, women who drank more than five cups of coffee a day had the same bone density as women who got little caffeine. 1. bone loss among older women is not a problem. 2. the experts who blamed caffeine for bone loss may be wrong. 3. caffeine causes healthy bones. 4. some older wome