21 Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu.
Brooke is writing a report on becoming a softball coach. Read the selection and correctly fill in the missing information.
If I could pick any career in the
✓ career cluster, I would choose to be a softball coach. I have
been playing softball for a number of years, so I have experience with the sport and would love to teach others how to play.
Because I would prefer to work with high school students, I think I would like to get
. which would allow me to
teach physical education as well.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.