Section A: Grammar Cloze Read the passage carefully. Choose the correct word from the words given in the box and write it in each blank. USE A WORD ONCE ONLY.

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Paul was catching grasshopper when he saw a lizard suddenly dart its sticky tongue to catch a fly. Fascinated, he decided to catch a lizard instead (1) grasshopper. Paul crouched down on the grass and stretched his hand out slowly. He caught gold of the lizard (2) its tail.

He got up quickly and ran home, anxious (3) show his father his prized catch.

When he reached home, he was astonished to see only a tail (4) his hand. Paul’s father explained that the lizard has a special way of escaping (5) its enemy. When is caught by his tail, it simply breaks the tail off and crawls away. A new tail will grow soon after. Paul learned a new and interesting fact about lizards from that experience.

Is "words dying" personification? !

Which example shows the correct way to cite a website on an mla works cited page?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant