Excerpt from Urban Agriculture
Terri Roberts
During WWII, officials from the U. S. War Department encouraged urban dwellers to use any available space to plant victory
gardens. As the war continued, the price of fruits and vegetables skyrocketed. Small vegetable and fruit gardens helped reduce
the pressure on the public food supply. By eating the vegetables grown in their gardens, citizens were able to decrease the cost
of produce needed to help feed the troops. The city gardens grown on apartment building rooftops and in vacant lots produced
forty percent of the vegetables consumed each year. Once the war ended, many people abandoned their gardens and returned to
grocery stores to purchase their produce.
2Today, a resurgence in urban agriculture is sweeping across the nation. Many modern concerns have contributed to the recent
popularity of city farms. One of the most pressing issues is the high cost of oil and gas. The ingredients used to prepare most
meals travel an average of forty-five miles each before reaching the local supermarket. In times when gas costs upwards of four
dollars per gallon, buying locally helps offset the expense of transportation. This helps reduce the overall cost of produce for
everyone. City farms also address growing concern over carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. Purchasing
locally grown foods can help reduce a city's carbon footprint
If you were to print this selection and jot down notes in the margins, this would be an example of what kind of strategy?
A)
brainstorming
B)
citing sources
C)
evaluating bias
D)
annotating

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Hyperbole in the book messenger by lois lowry

The following line from "the story of an hour" provides mrs. mallard's view of marriage: "there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature."which word emphasizes male dominance in marriage?