15. Sentences 1 and 2: The cost of new homes is high today. Many people are
purchasing older homes in need of
renovation,
The most effective combination of
sentences 1 and 2 would include which
of the following groups of words?
(1) Although many homes need
renovation
(2) Although the cost of new homes is
high today
(3) Because many people are purchasing
older homes
(4) Because the cost of new homes is
high today
(5) purchase older homes in need of
renovation

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a.odysseus does not care about his crew. b.odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c.odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d.odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e.odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.