More than 30 million acres of tropical rain forest are destroyed each year. an area as small as 1,000 acres of primary rain forest contains as many as 600 species of flowering plants, 280 species of trees, and 40 types of reptiles. what if one of these plants or animals contained the cure for cancer but was lost forever when its home was destroyed? that acre of rain forest could have saved millions of people, including the lives of innocent children.

what sentence best sums up the author’s viewpoint on the world’s rain forests?

a. the destruction of the rain forests must be stopped.

b. the rain forest must be cut away to make room for development.

c. the cure for cancer might be found in the tropical rain forest.

d. a small area of the tropical rain forest contains many different types of species.

Which statement would you identify as being correct? a. it is important to learn the etymology of every word in a text. b. it is important to understand the etymology of every word in a text. c. it is important to study the etymology of every word in a text. d. it is important to study the etymology of some words in a text.

My cat and my dog like best friends

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.