Manday by a team including finance professor Madhu Vecraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workilay can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to the actual earnings later reported by those companies, The team found that the greater the exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager's forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year. Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text? A) To summarize the results of the team's analysis B) To present a specific example that illustrates the study's findings C) To explain part of the methodology used in the team's study D) To call out a challenge the team faced in conducting its analysis 10 The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel The Railway Children. Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies,and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her.She was almost always there,ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons.Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school.and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions. According to the text,what is true about Mother? A) She wishes that more ladies would visit her. B) Birthdays are her favorite special occasion. C) She creates stories and poems for her children. D) Reading to her children is her favorite activity. III The following text is from Maggie Pogue Johnson's poem "Poet of Our Race." In this poem, the speaker is addressing Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author. Thou, with stroke of mighty pen, Hast told of joy and mirth, And read the hearts and souls of men As cradled from their birth. The language of the flowers, Thou hast read them all, And e'en the little brook Responded to thy call. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text? A) To praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature B) To establish that a certain writer has read extensively about a variety of topics C) To call attention to a certain writer's careful and elaborately detailed writing process D) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spen in nature with a certain writer