1. Honeybees travel up to four miles to find nectar for honey. When a bee finds nectar, it does a wiggle dance to tell the other bees where the nectar is. Other worker bees then head out to the source. All in all, a have of bees can travel up to 55,000 miles and visit 2,000,000 plants to produce one pound of honey What is the central idea of the passage?
Honeybees are hard workers.
Honey is made from nectar
Honeybees like to dance.

How does the author create a surprise ending? cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

Read the excerpt from monster. steve no, but i’ve seen a lot of ball games. i watch a lot of ball games. based on this dialogue, what can the reader infer about steve? he is a good basketball player. he enjoys watching ball games. he makes films of ball games. he is too lazy to play ball games.

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)