Read this conclusion.

when people carelessly discard plastic, the word’s oceans suffer. marine life must share space with water bottles and sandwich bags. sea creatures often mistake plastic waste for food, and they suffer dire consequences. do not contribute to this growing problem.

which sentence best completes this conclusion with a relevant call to action?

a make an effort to properly dispose of plastic trash and recyclables.

b there is a growing island of plastic waste off the coast of california.

c plastic waste is not easily biodegradable, and it stays in the ecosystem.

d study the ocean and learn about the needs of endangered marine wildlife.

What is the best prediction of the meaning of thrilling based on the context clues?

What is the primary purpose of this blog? to inform people about the new sports park to entertain people with details about the warbler to persuade people to protect the warbler to convince people to support the city council

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant