Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.
EthosLogosPathosEros
Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."It’s not just owls. It’s things like frogs, who make it their business to croak at night, particularly when mating. Artificial lights disrupt their mojo and that means less frogs and reduced populations. Sea turtle babies get confused, and migrating birds get confused when they fly with the stars.
Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these excerpts?
Which words and phrases from the excerpt best support the author’s purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the environment? Select four options.
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.
“so attractive”“now lined with”“withered vegetation”“as though swept”
cautiouspeacefulfrightenedmelancholic
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.
Which word best describes the tone used in both excerpts?
Which excerpt from Winona LaDuke’s "A Case for Waawaatesi” best appeals to readers’ logic?
Which statements describe the poem? Select three options.
Read the paragraph from The Hot Zone.At six-thirty, he gave an order to move out, and the column of vehicles left Fort Detrick's main gate and headed south, toward the Potomac River. It consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers' family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. One was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. It was an unmarked Level 4 biocontainment ambulance. Inside it there were an Army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. If someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the Slammer. The supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood.
Read the lines from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield.I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
Use the passages Silent Spring and "A Case for Waawaatesi” to answer the following question.
Jargon consists of words that are specific to a
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours.
Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and are active at night. Light pollution radically alters their world by turning night into day.
Read the poem.Snowflakes cascadeMy yard is changed.A backyard reality is rearranged.Neglected bikes wear blankets of snow,Hopscotch lines cower and hide,The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.Nancy took a breath and gathered her thoughts. She imagined that passing through the gray-zone door into Level 4 was like a space walk, except that instead of going into outer space, you went into inner space, which was full of the pressure of life trying to get inside your suit. People went into Level 4 areas all the time at the Institute, particularly the civilian animal caretakers. But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different. This was high-hazard work.
Did you find these answers helpful?