Complete the paragraphs so that the verb tense stays the same throughout. Nadine's little sister Olivia loved penguins and wanted to go to the zoo. Last year, Nadine planned a trip to surprise her. It
off as just an idea, but Nadine's brother insisted they work together to make it a reality. That's how the planning
.

First, Justin and Nadine
to tell Olivia that they were going to a new park. Olivia
happy to go, because she loved swings. However, when Nadine and Justin dragged her past the swings, Olivia
. She didn't understand why she couldn't go play. Then, when Olivia
the huge, ice-filled tank of penguins, she stopped crying. That trip was all Olivia talked about for days!

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[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Which of the following statements is true?