What is the main idea of the ReadWorks passage "Printing the Future"? A. Architects have begun using 3D printers to make small, realistic models of houses they design to give clients a sense of what the finished home will look like.

B. People are using 3D printing technology to build things from houses and medical devices to cakes and jewelry, saving time and money through the new technology.

C. Many chefs now use 3D printing technology to create vegan steaks and burgers, saving time that the chef would usually spend assembling and cooking the meat.

D. A 3D printer usually uses a 3D scanner or a computer program to sketch out what the printer will create in thin layers of materials like plastic or metal.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme