The following is a student draft. It may contain errors. Two weeks before I started high school, my mother announced we would be moving ... to an entirely different city, halfway across the country
Needless to say, I was horrified. I had already arranged for a way to avoid taking the bus carpooling with my friend Kwe and had signed up for all my
classes and extracurricular activities. I was certain this new school wouldn't have nearly as many options, and I knew there was no way I was going to
be able to set up a new carpool with only a few days to meet new people.
I would be moving away. I wondered, what would this new city be like what would the people be like what would people do with their time? I just
couldn't fathom a life outside of the one I knew and so I began to worry about whether I would be able to fit in.
These were the thoughts that haunted me for the next fourteen days, as we packed all our possessions and loaded them into the moving truck, as
we drove two thousand miles across the country, as we settled into our new apartment; and then, as I stood staring at the massive glass doors that
led into the new school I would begin the next day. But as I stood there, hesitant to take another step into this unknown world, I realized something
things are never as bad as I think they will be.
Which sentence is best to add to the end of paragraph 2 to better support the idea that the author is worried about fitting in?
ОА. I was certain everything would be better in the new city, but at the same time I felt like I was leaving my old friends behind to
pursue newer and much more interesting things.
OB. I was excited to learn about the new city we would be moving to including what types of activities were popular there and
whether the other kids enjoyed the same things as people from my hometown.
OC. How could my mother pack up our house and talk excitedly about our supposed new adventure, when all I could think about
was how miserable I felt and how much I would miss my friends?
OD Would the new kids enjoy doing the same things as my friends back home, or would I spend months in some sort of solitary
confinement pursuing my own interests?