Read the passage.
excerpt from "The Final Assault" from High Adventure by Edmund Hillary
I watched our support party disappear down the ridge and then turned to examine our campsite more closely. It wasnât really much of a place. Above us was a rock cliffâblack and craggy, but at least devoid of loose stones to fall on us. From the foot of the cliff a little snow slope ran at an easy angle for eight or nine feet to the top of the steep and exposed South Face of the mountain. This little slope was to be our campsite. It was certainly far from flat and it was to need a lot of work on it before we could possibly pitch a tent. We carefully moved all the gear to one side and then set to work with our ice axes to remove the surface snow off a reasonably large area. Ten inches down, we struck rock, and after an hourâs work we had cleared an area about eight feet long and six feet wide. The slope underneath was made up of stones and rubble all firmly glued together with ice. This was much harder going. With the picks on our ice axes we chopped away at the slope, prizing out the separate stones and scraping away the rubble. But our progress was very slow. We werenât using any oxygen at all, but we found we could work very hard indeed for periods of ten minutes or so. Then weâd have to stop and have a short rest. With the debris we chopped out of the slope we tried to build up the platform on the downhill side, but almost invariably saw it collapse and go roaring down over the bluffs below. At times we were buffeted by wind and snow, yet we worked doggedly on, knowing that our tent was our only chance of survival against the rigors of the night.
Read these sentences from "The Final Assault."
This little slope was to be our campsite. It was certainly far from flat and it was to need a lot of work on it before we could possibly pitch a tent. We carefully moved all the gear to one side and then set to work with our ice axes to remove the surface snow off a reasonably large area. Ten inches down, we struck rock, and after an hourâs work we had cleared an area about eight feet long and six feet wide. The slope underneath was made up of stones and rubble all firmly glued together with ice. This was much harder going. With the picks on our ice axes we chopped away at the slope, prizing out the separate stones and scraping away the rubble.
Which phrase tells best why the ideas in these sentences are organized as they are?
to describe the emotions the narrator experienced
to list events of the narratorâs account in chronological order
to explain problems the narrator faced and solutions he attempted
to give the causes and effects of the narratorâs undertaking
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Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnettâs âthe secret gardenâ explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after maryâs parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncleâs estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through maryâs transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. ââitâs in the garden no one can go into,â she said to herself. âitâs the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ââ b. âin india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.â c. âmary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.â d. ââit isnât a quite dead garden,â she cried out softly to herself. âeven if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.ââ
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English, 22.06.2019 10:30
Consider the text and its central idea. informational text: one privilege that many teens look forward to is the ability to earn a driverâs license. driverâs licensing requirements are not the same in every state. in some states, young people can be fully licensed before their sixteenth birthday. in other states, the privilege to drive has some restrictions until the driver is eighteen years old. in every state, driver education is a required step in earning a license. students might earn a permit, or provisional license, and spend six months to a year driving with an adult in the car. since states are very different based on population, development, and roadways, the laws are different, too. central idea: states makes different laws about licensing drivers with some similar requirements. what supporting detail is most important to include in a summary of this text? teens get excited about learning to drive. in some states, kids can get their license on their birthday. some states are heavily populated, with dangerous roads to navigate. every state includes driver education as part of licensing requirements.
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