Suppose the author of the article on school gardens had made the following claim. How would you categorize it? “Students who attend schools with gardens have had lower standardized testing scores than students in schools without gardens for the past five years.”

Claims of cause and effect
Claims of fact
Claims of definition
Claims of solutions or policies

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

1) i we aren't tired, we will go to the forest.

2) you will not see many old oak-trees, and animals will disappear if you don't care of them?

i don't understand the question.