English | Informational Common Assessment 7. Which sentence helps the reader understand the meaning of the words "serve" in paragraph 3 and
"service" in paragraph 4 as they are used in the article? (R11)
A. "Many Peace Corps volunteers experience these things every day, all across the globe." (Paragraph 1)
B. "The first lesson Americans learti when they travel to the Philippines, Mongolia, Honduras, or 68
other countries to start work as volunteers is that life is very different around the world." (Paragraph 2)
C. "Third, after Americans complete their Peace Corps service, they bring back with them many
memories and share what they learned about the places where they lived." (Paragraph 4)
D. "Recently, they have helped schools develop computer skills and educated communitics about
HIV/AIDS." (Paragraph 5)

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

How can you avoid the problem of groupthink? a. by choosing a group leader to direct the group b. by composing the team of only like-minded individuals c. by encouraging all members to voice their opinions d. by keeping quiet when you disagree with another group member's opinion

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”