Read the excerpt from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield.And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive.
Read the paragraph from The Hot Zone.Jerry Jaax was going to be the first man in, the point man. He had decided to take with him one of his officers, Captain Mark Haines, a former Green Beret. He was a short, intense man with a whipcord body who had been through the Green Berets' scuba-diving school. He had jumped out of airplanes at night into the open sea, wearing scuba gear. ("I'll tell you one thing," Haines once said to me. "I don't do scuba diving for fun as a civilian. The majority of my diving has been in the Middle East.") Captain Haines was not a man who would get claustrophobia and go into a panic in a space suit. Furthermore, Captain Haines was a veterinarian. He understood monkeys.
Read the sentence.The exquisite old painting hanging slightly crooked over the mantelpiece commanded our attention.
Which phrase from the "The Bells” best conveys the mood of lines 70-94?
Which lines from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe contain onomatopoeia? Select three options.
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.
Read this excerpt from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.For every sound that floatsFrom the rust within their throatsIs a groan.
Read the sentence.With the pounding rain and blowing wind, driving to the game was an exciting adventure.
Read the poem.Wide-eyed clowns honk noses,Toddlers shriek with glee,A rogue balloon stops with a pop,A big band blares its harmony.
Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."It’s not just owls. It’s things like frogs, who make it their business to croak at night, particularly when mating. Artificial lights disrupt their mojo and that means less frogs and reduced populations. Sea turtle babies get confused, and migrating birds get confused when they fly with the stars.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. One was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. It was an unmarked Level 4 biocontainment ambulance. Inside it there were an Army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. If someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the Slammer. The supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood.
Read the poem.The lights dim and quiet descends,Hushed whispers are barely heardAs silence surroundsUntil the movie ends.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive.
Read the sentence.During that epidemic, early warnings circulated widely.
Which best describes the structure of the poem "Safari Day in Kenya”?
Which line from "Safari Day in Kenya” contains an example of assonance?
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya.”Hyenas slink before us, mottled bodies, eyes black iceZebras bright as painted ponies, the babes brown-striped, not black!
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya.”Kimani stops at a watering hole, where hippos grunt in mud-baths,Baboons play in a nearby tree, like children out at camp.
How does the author use logos to support the argument made in "Save the Coral Reefs”?
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