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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.

▢ - It encourages the use of the country's natural resources.
▢ - It introduces an ongoing comparison to years past.
▢ - It shifts the tone of the address from grim to hopeful.
▢ - It explains the abundance of financial resources.
▢ - It reiterates the poor state of the nation's economy.