Read the selection below from "the once and future merlin" by marion zimmer bradley and answer the question that
follows.
over the centuries the story has been told and retold and told again, often with a widely varying cast of characters. knights,
priests and priestesses, kings and queens, and various users of magic come and go, but always there is arthur, the sun
around which all else revolves, his faithless wife (guinevere), his equally-faithless best friend (lancelot), the illegitimate son
(mordred) who becomes his bane--and merlin. whatever his role, merlin is always there, and it is always clear that arthur
could not have existed, survived, or become king without him.
source: bradley, marion zimmer. "the once and future merlin." fictionwise. com. fictionwise llc, n. d. web. 7 july 2011.
what is the author's purpose in the above passage, and how does she achieve it through her organization and choice of
details?

Samuel johnson believed that literature should appeal mainly to the scholar, to him the common man, to teach him the common man, to teach and him the king and the parliament

Choose the matching analogy plague: contagious a: confident: trustworthy b: loyal: companion c: nature: random d gather: congregate

The “big dig” the “big dig” (the central artery/tunnel project) has been complex and challenging. located in boston, massachusetts, this tunnel is eight lanes wide and three-and-a-half miles long. what is most amazing about this tunnel is that it is constructed under a major highway and skyscrapers located in boston’s financial district. construction crews used “clamshell excavators” during this dig. these machines carved narrow trenches, and then a special substance was pumped into the trench to keep the dirt from caving in. finally, steel beams were lowered into the trench and concrete was pumped in. one problem that engineers faced while constructing the tunnel is the fact that the soil beneath boston is extremely loose and soggy. engineers solved this dilemma by freezing the soil and pumping very cold water into pipes beneath the city. to strengthen the soil even further, a special type of glue was injected into the ground to with the consolidation of the soil. 23 which phrase best defines the word excavator as used in the passage? a. a device used to measure underground temperatures b. a device used to level uneven surfaces c. a device used to move heavy objects d. a device used to dig holes