Which simile is the BEST replacement for the underlined word?
Making a new life on this dry land
was going to be hard.
as smooth as silk
like climbing Mount Everest
as sweet as honey
like counting sheep

b is the answer.   i sat on the lumpy sofa, totally exhausted, with a bad taste in my mouth, wondering what i should do next.  

this map shows the geographic distribution of different tidal cycles along some earth's coastlines. areas experiencing tides are marked in yellow and experience one low tide and one high tide each day.