This is for English class ### Text for Educational Website#### Passage1. "...[A]merica is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.2. Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension, or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt, both at home and abroad... .3. Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties... . these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.4. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration... ."#### Question 28**How does Eisenhower develop the idea of America’s greatness in the first and second paragraphs?**A. In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he describes how America’s greatness could be hurt.B. In the first paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation; in the second paragraph, he describes how America can become even greater.C. In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he explains how America became great.D. In the first paragraph, he describes what makes a nation great; in the second paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation.#### ExplanationThe

Dwight D Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Texas but was brought up in Kansas. He was the third child…

(1) ... [A]merica is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet Question 28 realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, How does Eisenhower develop the idea of America's greatness in the first and second paragraphs? not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he describes betterment. A (2) Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples how America's greatness could be hurt. and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension, or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous In the first paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation; in the second paragraph, he describes how America can become even greater. hurt, both at home and abroad. . . . In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he explains how America became great. (3) . .. Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.... these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to In the first paragraph, he describes what makes a nation great; in the second paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation. travel. (4) But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and fruIstration

(1) ... [A]merica is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet Question 28 realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, How does Eisenhower develop the idea of America's greatness in the first and second paragraphs? not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he describes betterment. A (2) Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples how America's greatness could be hurt. and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension, or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous In the first paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation; in the second paragraph, he describes how America can become even greater. hurt, both at home and abroad. . . . In the first paragraph, he describes the greatness of America; in the second paragraph, he explains how America became great. (3) . .. Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.... these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to In the first paragraph, he describes what makes a nation great; in the second paragraph, he claims that America is the greatest nation. travel. (4) But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and fruIstration