Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. Deadly flu bugs and mad cow disease are nothing new. Look back in time to see when they first appeared. What organizational information about the text does the reader learn from this passage? The text is organized around important dates that relate to disease. The text is organized around data about how bugs relate to disease. The text is organized around data about how cows relate to disease. The text is organized around important breakthroughs that relate to disease.

Read these sentences. when the fever seemed to be near an end, the city of philadelphia became active once again. shops opening and people coming out of their homes, ships began to sail on the river. which transition phrase best connects the ideas? by the same token on the contrary in addition to in this case

Read this excerpt from holes. at the time, elya thought nothing of the curse. he was just a fifteen-year-old kid, and “eternity” didn’t seem much longer than a week from tuesday. besides, he liked madame zeroni and would be glad to carry her up the mountain. he would have done it right then and there, but he wasn’t yet strong enough. how does this section of the flashback relate to stanley? a.elya was much older during his difficult time than stanley was during his. b.elya’s physical weakness parallels stanley’s physical weakness. c.elya, like stanley, lives in the moment and does not consider the future. d.elya, like stanley, likes the character who is giving him a hard time.

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room