The next question refers to the following paragraph. Select the transition that best fits the blank.

The kite festival once marked the arrival of spring in Pakistan. People gathered with their handmade kites and battled over whose kite could fly .
Competition was fierce. People spoke of nothing else in the days that , admiring the winner and promising themselves that one day, their own kite would fly proudly over the town.
But, unfortunately that was . The kite festival has been banned since 2007.

In sentence 3, select the transition that best fits the blank.

Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman: which statement best explains how the structure of the passage supports the author's purpose? a. the passage traces several events in the order that they will occur to highlight how nature conquers human civilization. b. the passage shows that natural forces such as an absence of predators and an increase in the squirrel population can lead to destructive results. c. the passage shows that natural forms such as an absence of predators and human hunters can lead to the reforestation of new york city. d. the passage identifies how two natural forces are co-dependent - the deforestation of new york and the extinction of squirrels.