The lack of rain ( ) the already serious shortage of food. A: aggregated B: aggravated C: agitated D: agonized

The poor couple ______ every night over the decision to send their sons to school and keeping their only daughter at home to help with fainting work. A: agonized B: descended C: abated D: evacuated

‏Read the following paragraph and identify the sentences that are off target and do not support the topic sentence.（单选）​‏ (1) I had to face the social traumas of being a teenager. (2) Things that were supposed to be fun, like dates and dances, were actually horrible. (3) On the few occasions when I had a real date, I agonized over everything—my hair, my weight, my pimples. (4) After a date, I would come home, raid the kitchen, and drown my insecurities in a sea of junk food. (5) Dances were also stressful events. (6) My friends and I would sneak a couple of beers just to get up the nerve to walk into the school gym. (7) Now I realize that teenage drinking is dangerous. (8) I read recently that the number-one killer of teenagers is drunk driving. (9) At dances, I never relaxed. (10) It was too important to look exactly right, to act really cool, and to pretend I was having fun.​‏​ A: Sentences 3 and 7 B: Sentences 4 and 9 C: Sentences 7 and 8 D: Sentences 9 and 10

Read the following paragraph and identify the sentences that are off target and do not support the topic sentence.（单选） (1) I had to face the social traumas of being a teenager. (2) Things that were supposed to be fun, like dates and dances, were actually horrible. (3) On the few occasions when I had a real date, I agonized over everything—my hair, my weight, my pimples. (4) After a date, I would come home, raid the kitchen, and drown my insecurities in a sea of junk food. (5) Dances were also stressful events. (6) My friends and I would sneak a couple of beers just to get up the nerve to walk into the school gym. (7) Now I realize that teenage drinking is dangerous. (8) I read recently that the number-one killer of teenagers is drunk driving. (9) At dances, I never relaxed. (10) It was too important to look exactly right, to act really cool, and to pretend I was having fun. A: Sentences 3 and 7 B: Sentences 4 and 9 C: Sentences 7 and 8 D: Sentences 9 and 10

‎Read the following paragraph and identify the sentences that are off target and do not support the topic sentence.（单选）‌‎ (1) I had to face the social traumas of being a teenager. (2) Things that were supposed to be fun, like dates and dances, were actually horrible. (3) On the few occasions when I had a real date, I agonized over everything—my hair, my weight, my pimples. (4) After a date, I would come home, raid the kitchen, and drown my insecurities in a sea of junk food. (5) Dances were also stressful events. (6) My friends and I would sneak a couple of beers just to get up the nerve to walk into the school gym. (7) Now I realize that teenage drinking is dangerous. (8) I read recently that the number-one killer of teenagers is drunk driving. (9) At dances, I never relaxed. (10) It was too important to look exactly right, to act really cool, and to pretend I was having fun.‌‎‌ A: Sentences 3 and 7 B: Sentences 4 and 9 C: Sentences 7 and 8 D: Sentences 9 and 10

Read the following paragraph and identify the sentences that are off target and do not support the topic sentence.(1) I had to face the social traumas of being a teenager. (2) Things that were supposed to be fun, like dates and dances, were actually horrible. (3) On the few occasions when I had a real date, I agonized over everything—my hair, my weight, my pimples. (4) After a date, I would come home, raid the kitchen, and drown my insecurities in a sea of junk food. (5) Dances were also stressful events. (6) My friends and I would sneak a couple of beers just to get up the nerve to walk into the school gym. (7) Now I realize that teenage drinking is dangerous. (8) I read recently that the number-one killer of teenagers is drunk driving. (9) At dances, I never relaxed. (10) It was too important to look exactly right, to act really cool, and to pretend I was having fun. A: Sentences 3 and 7 B: Sentences 4 and 9 C: Sentences 7 and 8 D: Sentences 9 and 10