Read the excerpt from the hot zone. there she met lieutenant colonel trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom nancy had worked with for many years. they put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. she had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. they hauled on their space suits and sealed the ziploc zippers. they edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. people wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. this cringing becomes instinctive. which best states the central idea of this excerpt?
a. it is always necessary to work with a partner when dealing with unidentified substances.
b. extreme precautions must be taken when dealing with potentially hazardous materials.
c. scientists are well known for being overly cautious and for taking unnecessary safety measures.
d. it is standard procedure to wear both space suits and hearing protectors in laboratories.

What effect does the narrative's point of view have on the reader's experience of the events? the reader is shown both the views of women's suffrage supporters and of its opponents. the reader receives a broad historical overview of the women's suffrage movement from an objective source. the reader learns about the women's suffrage movement from the standpoint of someone who is close to it but has not worked in it. the reader is allowed to share directly in the feelings of a leader of the women's suffrage movement.

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

What is the theme of the poem, my tongue is divided into two by quique aviles? my tongue is divided into twoby virtue, coincidence or heavenwords jumping out of my mouthstepping on each otherenjoying being a voice for the messageexpecting conclusionsmy tongue is divided into twointo heavy accent bits of confusioninto miracles and accidentssaying things that hurt the heartdrowning in a language that lives, jumps, translatesmy tongue is divided by natureby our crazy desire to triumph and conquerthis tongue is cut up into equal piecesone wants to curse and sing out loudthe other one simply wants to ask for watermy tongue is divided into twoone side likes to partythe other one takes refuge in prayingtongueenglish of the funny soundstonguefunny sounds in englishtonguesounds funny in englishtonguein funny english soundsmy tongue sometimes acts like twoand it goes crazynot knowing which side should be speakingwhich side translatingmy tongue is divided into twoa border patrol runs through the middlefrisking wordsasking for proper identificationchecking for pronunciationmy tongue is divided into twomy tongue is divided into twoi like my tongueit says what feels righti like my tongueit says what feels rightby quique aviles