Read this excerpt from Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail. On January 29, Edgar Nollner waited in a dark cabin at Whiskey Creek, close to the halfway point. Suddenly he sat up. Bells! Was he hearing things? He ran to the window and found that it was Bill McCarty, who had tied sleigh bells to his dogs, coming in from the Ruby relay cabin. Mushers, either by choice or in some towns by law, often tied bells on their lead dogs to warn people they were coming up behind them. Edgar had not expected to hear Bill's bells for several days, but he wasted no time. He took the serum and started north along the frozen Yukon River.

Which conclusion can be formed based on the information in the excerpt?

Near the halfway point, the movement of the serum by dog teams was going worse than expected.
Near the halfway point, the plan to deliver serum by dog teams was considered a mistake.
Near the halfway point, the mushers tied bells on the lead dogs to warn of their arrival.
Near the halfway point, the movement of the serum by dog teams was going better than expected.

Select the sentence that is correctly written. a) raise from your chair and raise a glass to celebrate the new year. b) rise from your chair and rise a glass to celebrate the new year. c) raise from your chair and rise a glass to celebrate the new year. d) rise from your chair and raise a glass to celebrate the new year. eliminate

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.