HELP PLZZZ WITH THESE TWO QUESTIONS ASAP I CAN'T FIGURE THEM OUT GIVING BRAINLIEST AND POINTS HURRY ASAP!!!!!

Walking into the gym where my cheer team was about to hold our annual “Mini Cheer Camp” the first thought that invaded my mind were not “I do not belong on this team because of my size.”

What change, if any, needs to be made to the sentence above?
A) Change was to were
B) Change were to was
C) Delete the second set of quotation marks
D) No change needs to be made in this sentence.

Through reading one of George Orwell’s classic and most well-known pieces of literature, Orwell’s prediction relating to technology plays a similar and an important role not only in the book itself but to their personal lives, where day to day we are surrounded by technology and being connected to the web.

How should the sentence above be changed?
A) Change pieces to pieces
B) Delete the comma after literature
C) Change itself to its self
D) Change their to our

for the first answer the word "were" would not fit in that sentence so instead you should use was. "The first thought that invaded my mind was 'I do not belong to this team because of my size"

the second answer would be D because it also fits and makes sense in the sentence. ' but to our personal lives, where day to day we are surrounded by technology and being connected to the web.