Completion: Use words: produce, pick, spin, treat show how to a coconut
let the monkeya coconut

1.pick,2.treat

Explanation:

1.pick

2.treat

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

why does the crew join ahab's quest without hesitation?