Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions: 8) Which sentence best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A)
Pet cloning is an abomination that should not be
undertaken by anyone.
B)
Scientific advances have made it possible for pet
owners to clone their pets.
09
There are many different ways that pet cloning can
go wrong and cause heartache.
D)
Pet cloning, though controversial, is an option that
should be made available to pet owners.
9) Which statement BEST explains the opposing opinions presented in this
article on animal cloning?
A)
Proponents believe animal cloning will make pet
owners happy, and opponents believe it is unnatural.
B)
Proponents believe that any animal can be cloned,
while opponents believe animal cloning is
impossible.
Proponents believe that animal cloning will save all
C) endangered species, while opponents believe cloned
animals will ruin nature.
Proponents believe cloned animals are exact replicas,
D) while opponents believe they are nothing like the
animals from which they were cloned.

Abroad thesis statement encourages your readers to learn something new. 1) true 2) false

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.