Select the correct text in the passage. Proofread the text and find the two spelling errors.

Megan stopped and stared into the trees. Her feet were hurting from all the pebels she had stepped on. The ground was hard, and she had dragged her tired legs through thrny shrubs and bushes. When she really thought about it, though, she was lucky to be alve. But how long would her luck—and her strenth—hold out?

Match each term to its definition. the ideas that show a speaker's point of view or beliefs about a topic facts, statistics, examples, and expert opinions that support a point of view or belief evidence arrowright claims arrowright

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

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