Passage: Kathy Jimson moved into our neighborhood in August. Right away, she started to change her front yard. She pulled out all the old vines and planted a simple garden that's easy to take care of.
Its most striking feature is a trail of Arizona river rock. These silver stones brighten the yard and are a good contrast to the plants. She has planted slow-growing garden juniper among the rocks. Their gray-green needles provide an excellent contrast to the stones.
The grass she chose, with its wonderful yellow spires, requires little water. The yellow mums, which also use little water, are great accents to the darker shrubs. At both corners, she has planted bright red roses that need little care.
All her shrubs are dwarf varieties that need little attention. In the center of the yard are a soft-leaf yucca tree and a Japanese maple tree. The whole yard is surrounded by a border of liriope flowers, which can survive on rainfall alone.

Question: What is this passage mainly about?
A. describing a simple garden
B. educating readers about fall plants
C. how to use river rock in a garden
D. fitting dwarf plants into a garden

From "The Tyranny of Things" by Elizabeth Morris

Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally one little girl said, "Which do you like best, people or things?" The other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once.

I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess them under our hand. The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things.

Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on their walls. They keep photographs of all their friends and kodak albums of all the places they visit, they save all their theater programmes and dinner cards, they bring home all their alpenstocks. Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.

But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things. We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our china is a care, our photographs drive us mad, our programmes and alpenstocks fill us with loathing. We feel stifled with the sense of things, and our problem becomes, not how much we can accumulate, but how much we can do without. We send our books to the village library, and our pictures to the college settlement. Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret, where they lie huddled in dim and dusty heaps, removed from our sight, to be sure, yet still faintly importunate.

Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance, or we shall be once more overwhelmed.

For it is an age of things. As I walk through the shops at Christmas time and survey their contents, I find it a most depressing spectacle. All of us have too many things already, and here are more! And everybody is going to send some of them to everybody else! I sympathize with one of my friends, who, at the end of the Christmas festivities, said, "If I see another bit of tissue paper and red ribbon, I shall scream."

It extends to all our doings. For every event there is a "souvenir." We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away. Even our children cannot have a birthday party, and play games, and eat good things, and be happy. The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home. Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles, which can never cut the waves clean and sure and swift until she has been scraped bare again. And there seems little hope for us this side our last port.

And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope! When a man’s possessions were burned with him, so that he might, forsooth, have them all about him in the next world! Suffocating thought! To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.

One central idea of Morris’s essay is that getting rid of things can be a relief for people. Which two of these details help illustrate that idea?

Choose one answer from each group. Type the LETTER ONLY for each answer in the correct blank.

Type A, B, C, or D for Blank 1.

Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.
Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles.
Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret.
Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance.

Type E, F, G, or H for Blank 2.
The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home.
We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away.
And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope!
To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.
Answer for Blank 1:

Answer for Blank 2:

Write a letter to your father requesting him to send you money for various
purpose (like college fee tuition fee hostel fee or for the language class)
​

Read the paragraph. Laughter is a message we send to other people. Most people rarely laugh when they are alone. Laughter helps us interact with others. "The first laughter appears at about 3.5 to 4 months of age, long before we’re able to speak” (Provine). Babies, who cannot speak, use laughter to relate to their mothers, and their mothers, who can speak, use laughter rather than words to relate back. Which header would be best for this paragraph?

WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST !

Mason is preparing a presentation for the school board about the need for new computers in the media center.
Which tone is most appropriate for this purpose?


A. a formal tone, because his purpose is to persuade his audience
B. a formal tone, because his purpose is to educate his audience
C. an informal tone, because his purpose is to entertain his audience
D. an informal tone, because his purpose is to understand his audience

what does the text imply about the author’s point of view? (5 points)

A. The author believes Buddhists should be converted to Christianity.

B. The author believes Christians should be converted to Buddhism.

C. The author believes Christians should follow Buddhist practices.

D. The author believes missionaries should stop converting people.

Read the sentence.

If American students are provincial about the literary histories of other places, imagining themselves to be the primary readers and writers on the planet, it is up to us to help enlighten them. What is the meaning of the word provincial?

Hopeful

Creative

Narrow-minded

Self-Disciplined

One characteristic of the 19th century that was different from previous centuries was:

The old saying "To err is human" attests to the truth that we are all _________. a. fruitless

PLEASE HELP ASAP 15 POINTS WILL MARK BRAINLIEST
Select the correct answer.
Who is the intended audience for this instructional text?
OA.
a college student who wants to make quick meals
OB.
a banker hoping to impress work friends with good food
O C.
a chef at a new restaurant who needs a signature dish
OD.
a food blogger looking for an exotic meal to write about

Which sentence shows subject-verb agreement?
After years of faithful service, the circus elephant stop wanting to perform.
The city have refused to lift the water restrictions.
Each of the four dessert options is equally
appealing.
Clark and Abe hopes, with hard work, to become astronauts.
NEXT QUESTION

How did postwar writers use their writing to reject
values characteristic of this time period?
O They used traditional forms of writing to
describe mainstream society.
O They exposed contradictions within society
and celebrated individual human
experiences
O They wrote nonfiction to compare American
values to those of other countries
O
They described a utopian view of what they
wanted society to be like.

Larry will probably be a late bloomer socially, just like his older brothers​

Which detail supports the idea that robots will not take over medical jobs?
a) robots can figure out what is wrong with patients faster than humans can.

b) robots cannot have the relationship with the patients that doctors have.

c) robots do not need to take vacations or get paid any money like people do.

d) robots do not get distracted like human nurses and doctors do.​

Review the authors use of the word American throughout chunk 2 . How is the narrator Using the word convey her feelings about America?

the bet story

what can you infer about the banker.​

what are three norms?

Domestic trade and its type

1. THE VERY FIRST EFFECT OF EVEN A SMALL AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL ON A
PERSON'S SAFE DRIVING ABILITY IS TO REDUCE HIS OR HER:

A. Steering ability

B. Good judgment

C. Muscle control

D. Quick reflex movements

Listen to the report and interview here.

What do the characters learn Because of Winn Dixie?

HELP PLEASE
Choose a matching analogy.
honor:disgrace

a) loyally trust
b) hate:poin
c) devious shrewd
d) genuine artificial

Which of the following is a topic sentence:_________
a. The ball is round.
b. Oscar Wilde is an Irish writer.
c. The world travels around the sun.
d. The ratification of the 21st Amendment caused internal strife among the elite of the United States.

The conception phase of the product life cycle could be described as dealing with

ideas

manufacturing

distribution

improvement

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word tradition as it is
used in paragraph 5 of “The Lottery." Write your definition of "tradition" and
explain how you figured out the meaning. i need help plss this a 50points on my test

I will mark brilliantest

Explain the following phrases in your own words with reference to the poem "where the mind is without fear"in one-two lines:-
(i)head is held high
(ii) Narrow domestic walls
(iii)From the depth of truth
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In President Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural State of the Union address, he states, "Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty."

What rhetorical device did he use in this statement?

assonance
hyperbole
figurative language
irony

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct forms. Use the Present Simple or Present Continuous.
1. She usually (walk)
to school.
2. But look! She (go)
by bike today!
3. l(not/ do)
anything at the moment. Do you need any help with your homework?
4. Every Friday, we (visit)
our grandparents.​

PLEASE HELP 100 POINTS + Brainliest

According to "Drawn to Barre," why were immigrants skilled in stonecutting attracted to Barre, Vermont?
A. There was an opera in the town.
B. They wanted to work on the railroad.
C. There were quarries in or near the town.
D. They wanted to form labor unions.

A harvest plan in business is the equivalent of which of the following?

a prenuptial agreement in marriage

a white flag in a battle

a flare shot from a sinking ship

a beggar asking for spare change