(1) scientists generally agree that earth is getting warmer due to what's called the greenhouse effect. (2) a greenhouse stays warm because sunlight and heat coming through the glass roof are mostly trapped. (3) the heat doesn't radiate back into the atmosphere because it's held in by the glass. (4) something like that happens on earth. (5) the atmosphere acts like a blanket that keeps the sun's heat from leaking away into space. what is the main conclusion you are to draw from this paragraph? a. the atmosphere is what keeps the planet warm. b. the sun's heat can easily leak away out into space. c. greenhouses most plants to grow more quickly. d. the greenhouse effect is changing earth's atmosphere.

What kind of sentence is the following example? before he started tp watch tv, he made sure that he had all of his favorite snacks (ice cream and chips), and he sure to get all of his homework finished.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the rhyme scheme of "an open boat" is abcb abab abba aabc

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey