Select the correct sentence or sentences in the passage. which two sentences in the passage are simple sentences? thermal mass (1) thermal mass describes the ability of material, such as brick, stone, or cement walls, to store heat. (2) the temperature might be high during the day, but if a building does not have enough thermal mass, the temperature inside will drop along with the outside temperature. (3) one way to even out the temperature inside a building is to include a lot of thermal mass when the structure is built. (4) during the day, heat from the warm air or sunlight outside is absorbed by the walls. (5) at night, some of this heat is released inside the building as the outside temperature drops. (6) this process is called passive solar heating because it does not involve mechanical heating devices.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.