Read the paragraph. global warming resulting from greenhouse gases is a serious issue that demands immediate action. throughout the world, we can already see the significant effects of global warming on people and natural habitats. what would make the best counterargument and rebuttal? a) you may not think global warming is a serious issue, but you will when it directly affects your life. b) a few scientists prefer to study global warming using computer models, but there is no substitute for hands-on field work. c) some people say that global warming is the result of natural cycles, but hundreds of scientific studies have linked global warming to human activity. d) i have met people who do not believe in global warming, but they obviously do not pay attention to how the weather has changed over the past ten years.

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Read the sentence. the judge stated that “the court cannot superimpose its opinion over the opinion of the jury.” what does superimpose mean? a) to take away b) to ignore c) to place over d) to combine