Question

select the best evidence to support the statement \the narrator feels the anticipation of something is often better than the thing itself.\ there may be more than one correct choice. have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be. poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people, they become poor people who won the lottery. she was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her. there was so much potential in the imagined removal of the birthmark; any fool on the bus could play the game of guessing how perfect she would look without it. from miranda july, \birthmark.\ copyright 2007 by miranda july

Explanation:

The correct evidence directly reflects that the imagined (anticipated) outcome is more appealing than the real result. The first sentence establishes the core idea that getting what you want doesn't match the expectation, and the lines about the birthmark highlight that the imagined perfection of removing it had far more potential than the actual change.

Answer:

1. "Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be."
2. "There was so much potential in the imagined removal of the birthmark; any fool on the bus could play the game of guessing how perfect she would look without it."