Ancient forest rises from italian clay
workers were digging for clay to supply a tile factory in italy's umbria region
when they struck wood-old tree trunks, in fact. upright but listing like pisa's tower,
they looked, felt, and even smelled like living trees.
but these relatives of modern sequoias and bald cypresses are about two million
years old. buried by an ancient earthquake, they were preserved by the moist clay.
sixty trees, some of them five feet in diameter and 26 feet high, have been exposed
on a 25-acre site near perugia; the tops of three dozen more break the surface. no
sequoias, nor anything resembling them in the family called taxodiaceae, live in italy
today, suggesting that the climate used to be far damper.
exposure to air has led to some decay of the trees. "the primary object is to
find some way to preserve them," says the site director, sergio vergoni of umbria's
archeological superintendency. his team has erected roofs over the trunks to provide
protection from the elements and is monitoring their status.
analysis of the trees revealed that some lived for a thousand years. “they are
not petrified,” vergoni says, “they are wood; they still could be burned.”
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to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

explanation:

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

"valley of salt tears" and "dark, deep and foggy" are two images used to establish a mood of uncertainty and regret. this imagery is made up of sensory appeals to brings up   theological concerns of sin and retribution.

they conjure up the human   uncertainty about the divine and its relationship to the world.