What is the purpose of paragraph 2?
to justify why the city of Chicago should have spent more
money on a fire department
to explain why no one knows for sure what caused the Great
Chicago Fire
to explain why the city of Chicago needed strong building
regulations
O to explain the conditions that made Chicago vulnerable to a
large fire

"throngs rushed to the coastal area near the airport from which the plane had taken off, overloaded with relief supplies clemente wanted to make sure reached the victims of an earthquake in nicaragua."

she swerves to avoid the turtle.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)