Both roller skating and ice skating are fun ways to spend time with your friends and get some exercise. With roller skating, you can use roller skates or roller blades. Roller skates have one wheel on each of the four corners of the skate. Roller blades have four wheels down the middle of the shoe. Roller skating can be done on any smooth surface, such as a floor, a street, or a sidewalk.
In contrast, ice skates have a metal blade on the bottom of each shoe. The blade helps the skaters glide along the ice. There are two kinds of ice skates: figure skates and hockey skates. Figure skates have a toe pick, or a sharp end that helps skaters grip the ice and prevent skidding. Hockey skates do not have a toe pick, but they are heavier boots that have a thicker blade. In addition, ice skating must take place on the ice, either at a rink or on a frozen lake.
Which structure was used to develop this passage?
A. chronological order
B. cause and effect
C. problem and solution
D. compare and contrast

Three types of literature characteristics of the twelfth century are ? sonnets, histories, ballads, elegies, lyrics. select all that apply.

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.

Excerpt from an enemy of the people henrik ibsen mrs. stockmann. (turns to the hall door, listening.) i expect that is mr. hovstad coming. billing. very likely. (peter stockmann comes in. he wears an overcoat and his official hat, and carries a stick.) peter stockmann. good evening, katherine. mrs. stockmann (coming forward into the sitting-room). ah, good evening--is it you? how good of you to come up and see us! peter stockmann. i happened to be passing, and into the dining-room). but you have company with you, i see. mrs. stockmann (a little embarrassed). oh, no--it was quite by chance he came in. (hurriedly.) won't you come in and have something, too? peter stockmann. i! no, you. good gracious--hot meat at night! not with my digestion, when peter stockmann enters, what does his physical appearance to reveal about his character?