Background information: This is a journal entry from a soldier fighting on the western front. The trenches are mud up to our ankles. In other places, the trenches are waist deep in water. We spend all our time digging and filling sandbags, running for supplies and stores, or building up the tops of the trench. There is no time to be weary or bored.

What was the effect of the muddy trenches, according to this soldier?
A) He could not get clean.
B) He did not have time to fight.
C) He could not sleep.
D) He did not have time to be tired.

With the california gold rush and the opening of the west came an increased interest in building a transcontinental railroad the first chinese were hired in 1865 at approximately $28 per month to do the very dangerous work of blasting and laying ties over the treacherous terrain of the high sierras in the beginning was slow and conquer the many embankments, the chinese workers used techniques they had learned in china to complete similar tasks. they were lowered by ropes from the top of cliffs in baskets, and while suspended, they chipped away at the granite and planted explosives that were used to blast tunnels1.* 11b this passage reflects workingefforts and conditions of which corporation? a.the transcontinentalrailway line b.the union pacific company c.the central pacific company d.the norfolkwestern company