Read the excerpt from silent spring
which words and phrases from the excerpt best support
the author's purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the
environment? check all that apply.
yet every one of these disasters has actually happened
somewhere, and many real communities have already
suffered a substantial number of them. a grim specter has
crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy
may easily become a stark reality we all shall know
these disasters
actually
happened
grim specter
almost unnoticed
tragedy
stark reality