(b) Which sentence from the text best supports this central idea? A "After four failed attempts by Nyad, many people were skeptical of her ability to swim across the Straits of Florida." "She also had sharks circling beneath her and was thrown off B course by a storm that passed over while she swam." "To prevent jellyfish from stinging c) her, for example, Nyad wore a special mask and surgical gloves." D "Nonetheless, after 53 long hours of swimming, the 64-year-old Nyad emerged from the water in Florida, successful at last."

Read the first stanza of wallace stevens's 'the anecdote of the jar' below: i placed a jar in tennessee, and round it was, upon a hill. it made the slovenly wilderness surround that hill. which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza? o a. when i placed a jar outside in tennessee, it seemed to dominate all of nature. o b. the round jar i put on a hill looked strange amidst the wildness of nature o c. i put a round jar on a hill in tennessee, and the jar made the wilderness surround it. o d. i placed a jar on a round, wilderness-covered hill in tennessee.