Which sentence best concludes the passage? Palms
by J. P. Saunders

There are over 2,600 varieties of palms, which include leafy house plants, landscaping trees, and even vines known as lianas. Although palms grow all over the world, most palms do not tolerate cold weather well and cannot thrive in freezing temperatures; they prefer hot
and dry or tropical climates. Palms have evergreen leaves, called fronds, that grow atop a single stem; for palm trees, the stem becomes a trunk. Palm tree fronds can be used as food for some grazing animals or as straw for hats or furniture, and the wood from palm trunks can be used for durable hardwood flooring and siding.

A. Large palm trees can grow over 40-feet high, and their fronds must be trimmed annually.
B. In addition to adding to the landscape, the different parts of a palm have many practical uses.
C. Plant a palm in your yard today and enjoy its elegant beauty for many years to come.
D. Tropical fruits such as dates and coconuts grow on date and coconut palms, respectively.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,