Item 4 Question 1
Part A

What is the author's viewpoint in "These Crows Almost Died Out Before Scientists Discovered They Use Tools"?

The way that crows and humans use tools is very similar.

The discovery of an animal that uses tools is an important event.

Of the animals that use tools, crows are most skilled.

Rutz may have found additional bird species that use tools if he had expanded his study.
Question 2
Part B

How is the viewpoint in Part A conveyed in the text?

by explaining that studying tool use in animals could lead to finding a connection to tool use in humans

by stating that Rutz was reluctant to search for bird species in remote areas because of the risk

by comparing crows' behaviors with tools to behaviors in other tool-using species

by describing how both crows and young children are naturally curious at birth

Create four specific questions about eating healthy foods and exercising

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

What lines in this expert from act v of shakespeare’s romeo and juliet create dramatic irony