Read the paragraph.

Glenway Park should be saved for future generations to enjoy. This area has been a favorite spot for generations of picnickers and stargazers. The foundation of the city’s first building still stands near the baseball diamond. In addition, the park has over three acres of old-growth oak forest that harbors spring flowers, deer, and a variety of song birds.

What sentence best finishes the paragraph?

Glenway Park’s unique natural and historical treasures must be preserved.
Glenway Park is a nice place to visit and a good place for families.
Glenway Park’s fun combination of woods and picnic areas is hard to beat.
Glenway is over six acres and is visited by thousands of people every year.

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Understand that amassed in paragraph 3 means