1. PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text? O A Scientists have confirmed that humans release CO2, which warms
the Earth's surface and contributes to global warming.
OB CO2 is only one of the many gases that is trapped in our
atmosphere and contributes to global warming.
OC Scientists have only been able to confirm significant increases in
CO2 and temperatures in two locations on Earth.
D The greenhouse effect is a natural process on Earth, in which heat is
trapped by our atmosphere to keep it warm enough for life.
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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.