Read the passage below and use your word structure strategy to you determine the meaning of the underlined words in the passage. write the meanings of each underlined word and explain how you determined each meaning. an old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. there was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts, trucks, and men, women and children were crossing it. the mule-drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers push against the spokes of the wheels. the trucks ground up and away heading out of it and peasants plodded along in the ankle deep dust. but the old man sat there without moving. he was too tired to go any further. spectacles, pontoon, peasants are the underlined words.

1)Spectacles: It means a type of eyeglasses which are created to improve people´s eyesight. It is a plural noun as it is modified by “steel” and “rimmed”.

2)Pontoon: it is a temporary, simple boat structure that is used as a bridge. It is a singular noun.

3)Peasants: They are simple and people of low social status who live in the countryside. They usually work on the land, and raise cattle. It is a plural  noun.

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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pls mark as brainliest.

some attention getter quotes to support your thesis regarding brain work could be the following: :

a. storage capacity of your brain is virtually unlimited.

b. your brain produces sufficient electricity to light-up a small bulb.

c. different brain circuits are involved with reading aloud or silently.

d. your brain by itself does not feel pain.

e. reading allows your brain to download info directly.

f. brains of two musicians performing together can synchronize.