Select the correct text in the passage. Which part of the passage helps explain the meaning of the word hollow by using inference as a context clue?
Building with Bamboo
We are already aware of the different and wonderful uses that trees and plants have. They not only provide us with fruits and vegetables, but
they also produce beautiful flowers from which we make colors, perfumes, and even tea. However, trees and plants have another important use.
They are used for building! Before humans made homes with bricks and concrete, they used plants such as bamboo. Bamboo is extremely
strong and lengthy. That makes bamboo a useful resource for building houses. Bamboo is used even today for making sleeping mats, bowls,
and cages. Bamboo is hollow, so water can easily pass through it. As a result, people use bamboo as empty pipes to water plants. It is surely
amazing to think about the vast number of uses that plants and trees such as bamboo can have.

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

Dream variations by langston hughes analysisand “the tropics in new york” by claude mckay both depict a longing for another place. what are the places and what do they represent?

What can be inferred about the cyclops in this excerpt from homer’s odyssey?