Question 1 Part A

What is the author's viewpoint in "These Crows Almost Died Out Before Scientists Discovered They Use Tools"?

The discovery of an animal that uses tools is an important event.

Of the animals that use tools, crows are most skilled.

Rutz may have found additional bird species that use tools if he had expanded his study.

The way that crows and humans use tools is very similar.
Question 2
Part B

How is the viewpoint in Part A conveyed in the text?

by stating that Rutz was reluctant to search for bird species in remote areas because of the risk

by describing how both crows and young children are naturally curious at birth

by explaining that studying tool use in animals could lead to finding a connection to tool use in humans

by comparing crows' behaviors with tools to behaviors in other tool-using species

Which situation might occur in a conflict of character versus nature? a. a society disapproves of a character's behavior. b. a character suffers from a serious illness and eventually dies. c. two characters argue over a difference of opinion. d. a character is unable to decide on his opinion of another character.

My friends asked me, “are you not coming for the party? "change into passive voice

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt