PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?A. The complex songs that bowhead whales sing prove to the scientists that the whales are smarter than we originally thought. B.Many populations of people would be affected if bowhead whales went extinct, as they rely on their blubber and baleen. C.Scientists hope that people will be more motivated to preserve bowhead whales if they hear their beautiful song. D.By listening to bowhead whales' songs, scientists can learn more about them and help preserve their species.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning