Answer:
A) "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human."
B) "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer."
Step-by-step explanation:
In the given excerpt from the speech, the speaker talks about the importance of the art department. In the speech, the speaker also talks about why he thinks it is important not only important for academic life but also for life as well.
For the summarized version, the two sentences most appropriate to be included are
"Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human"
and
"We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer."
Thus, the correct answers are options A and B.