Select ALL the correct answers. Which two statements best express themes of the passage?

Travel enhances people's knowledge of the world.
People should value experience more than they do.
When times are hard, the sea provides solace.
Progress is a benefit too living in the modern age.
The older people grow, the wiser they become.

In the chaste adventures of joseph: a comedy, the garden outside the potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the

Is "ing" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.