Read the passage below. And it is strange that we men, to whom this very vegetation had seemed so weird and horrible a little time ago, should now behold it with the emotion a home-coming exile might feel at sight of his native land. What is the author’s purpose in using a metaphor in the description above? The author is conveying the relief that the men feel at having escaped. The author is presenting the similarities between the natural landscape on earth and that on the moon. The author is portraying the transformation that the men have undergone as they learn to appreciate the moon’s beauty. The author is depicting the men’s return to earth after they have lived with the Selenites.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

How do the excerpt and diagram complement one another?

What happens to graders who use a red pen? a.they are more accurate with thier correctionsb.they find more errorsc.they feel themselves getting angrt when they graded.they make more mistakes