A. playing chess involves sportsmanship, so the game build strong character. b. besides being enjoyable and absorbing, playing chess teaches many skills that are useful in everyday life. c. chess build math skills because it involves practicing problem solving. d. by requiring planning ahead and strategizing, chess teaches the thinking skills many schools and employers want.

What background knowledge would best support this inference about mario?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Read the passage and choose the correct punctuation marks