Read the paragraph from the Inaugural Address. And yet our distress comes from no failure of
substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts.
Compared with the perils which our forefathers
conquered, because they believed and were not
afraid, we have still much to be thankful for Nature
still offers her bounty and human efforts have
multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a
generous use of it languishes
in the very sight of the
supply
How does the paragraph add to the development of
the speech? Select two options.

A. It encourages the use of the country’s natural resources.
B. It introduces an ongoing comparison to years past.
C. It shifts the tone of the address from grim to hopeful.
D. It explains the abundance of financial resources.
E. It reiterates the poor state of the nation’s economy.

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