Read the excerpt from A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano.

The scientist who forgot to eat his lunch was busy cooking up a whole new way of thinking about gravity. He was a radical smarty-pants—somebody with a wild imagination. Someone whose brain could surprise even himself.

Albert Einstein didn't mean to turn the universe upside-down on everyone. He didn't plan on leading others to discover black holes. At first, all he set out to do was think about motion, along with a few other related ideas. But almost before he knew it, he had suddenly made our dependable old universe seem strange and new.

Which sentence is the best summary of the excerpt?

Albert Einstein was a radical smarty-pants and somebody who had a wild imagination.
Albert Einstein accidentally changed people’s understanding of the universe with his ideas about gravity.
Black holes were discovered by scientists who were so busy they forgot to eat lunch.
It is lucky that Albert Einstein thought about gravity, or scientists would not have discovered black holes

Respond to one of the questions below. include at least two supporting details or examples. a. in “the literature of the middle east and south asia,” laura winkiel writes: “these stories us to understand the complex questions that middle easterners and south asian people ask as they stand at a crossroads of cultural and religious change.” explain how this statement applies to one of the selections you read. be sure to include the title of the selection and explain the crossroads that it illustrates. b. setting and mood are important elements in many of the stories in this unit. choose one story and describe some aspects of its setting: where it takes place; what mood is created by the details of weather, place, and time; and how this setting to convey the theme of the story. c. what did you learn about the role of women in the societies described in the reading selections in this unit? describe how the women cope with the conflicts they encounter. note: if you respond to essay (c), you may not choose the similar essay in the unit 3 unit test.

Which resource might provide a student who is just starting a research project with a list of credible sources of information to consult? o a. a biography of an early computer scientist o b. an article on new developments in computing o c. a book about programming languages o d. an online encyclopedia article or wiki

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?