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read this excerpt from 'the tell-tale heart" by edgar allan poe. then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows
truei-nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease had sharpened my senses
- not destroyed -- not dulled them. above all was the sense of hearing acute. i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. i heard many
things in hell. how, then, am i mad? hearkenl and observe how healthily-how calmly i can tell you the whole story.
it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. object there was none. passion there
was none. i loved the old man. he had never wronged me. he had never given me insult. for his gold i had no desire. i think it was his eyel yes, it
was this! he had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold, and so by degrees - very
gradually i made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus nid myself of the eye forever
in these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill the old man" because of his eye. the author uses the lines to
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Read this passage: many manufacturers prefer plastic as a material for containers because it can be molded into many shapes. but plastic is not very strong. it must be fused with glass or steel for strength. it is also not very durable. even the strongest plastic can break under enough pressure. the biggest disadvantage to using plastic is that it does not decompose. while plastic can be recycled, doing so is tedious and difficult. while it may be more expensive and difficult to work with, aluminum is a much stronger building material with far greater tensile strength. it conducts electricity because it is metal. best of all, aluminum is very easy to recycle. even if it is thrown away, it decomposes much more quickly than most manufacturing materials. how does the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern of the passage support the author's purpose? a. the passage gradually leads up to the point about decomposition to inform the reader about the importance of recycling plastics. b. the passage lists the advantages and disadvantages of each material to make a case for the use of plastic and not aluminum in containers. c. the passage begins with a description of plastic's problems in order to call attention to the good qualities of aluminum. d. the passage shows the superiority of aluminum in order to make a case for the production of stronger plastics.