Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follows:

The Book of Dragons
Chapter III The Deliverers of Their Country, an excerpt
By E. Nesbit

It all began with Effie's getting something in her eye. It hurt very much indeed, and it felt something like a red-hot spark—only it seemed to have legs as well, and wings like a fly. Effie rubbed and cried—not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind—and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out. Effie's father was a doctor, so of course he knew how to take things out of eyes.

When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural—rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious.

Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out." People always say this when they have had something in their eyes.

"Oh, yes—it's out," said the doctor. "Here it is, on the brush. This is very interesting."

Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share in. She said: "What?"

The doctor carried the brush very carefully across the room, and held the point of it under his microscope—then he twisted the brass screws of the microscope, and looked through the top with one eye.

"Dear me," he said. "Dear, dear me! Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." The creature under his eye wriggled a little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a bat-like wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly. Effie, run round to the professor and ask him to be kind enough to step in for a few minutes."

"You might give me sixpence, Daddy," said Effie, "because I did bring you the new specimen. I took great care of it inside my eye, and my eye does hurt."

The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.

But at teatime another thing happened. Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig. He was just getting ready to drop it on the floor, and end its life in the usual way, when it shook itself in the spoon—spread two wet wings, and flopped onto the tablecloth. There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"

The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.

"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."

It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long—with scales and wings.

So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to seem less valuable. For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.

And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.

"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."

And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees. They all looked alike except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.

What words best describe the tone set by the narrator in the opening lines? (5 points)

A. Amazed, fearful, sinister
B. Interested, entertained, concerned
C. Peculiar, odd, strange
D. Suspicious, outrageous, funny

Answer:

C.

Explanation:

I used process of elimination.

Answer A doesn't work because there was no "amazed" and "sinister" part in the opening lines.

Answer B doesn't work because "entertained" isn't really an adjective to describe the opening lines.

Answer D doesn't work because there's nothing "funny" about getting something stuck in your eye.

I hope this is correct.

Complete your own "learn" list.

Topic

What I Know:

1.

2.

3

What I Want to Learn:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Topic: What I Know: 1. 2. 3. What I Want to Learn: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Please help me ASAP I’ll mark Brainly

Given today's high temperature of 39 degrees Fahrenheit, find the degrees in Celsius
(F-32) 5/9
(39-32) 5/9
7 x 5/9 can be rewritten as 7/15/9
Remember we multiply numerator to numerator, and denominator to denominator
35/9 - 3.89 degrees Celsius
Your problem:
Given January 14, 2021 high temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit, find the degrees in
Celsius
(
F32) 5/9
(59 -32) x 5/9
...complete the problem to find the solution
3.89 Celsius
15 Celsius
1222 Celsius

you are attempting to convince an audience that animal testing is morally wrong

14) The author's purpose in the paragraph 4 is to let the reader know that
A)
charities are not registered.
B)
not all types of calls are covered on the list.
numbers must be listed on the registry for 31 days
before calls stop.
D)
companies you have purchased something from may
continue to call for 18 months.

Which sentences describe how Sara revised and edited her research report about the ERA? (Select all correct answers.)
She added more and stronger transitions between sentences.
She added evidence that she had initially left out.
She re-organized all of her paragraphs.
She replaced informal language with academic discourse.

What do the topic sentences in a report show you?
the style and tone of the report
the purpose of the report
the report’s intended audience
the overall structure of the report

Which phrases do describe features of academic discourse? (Select all correct answers.)
short, simple sentences
longer, more complex sentences
a formal tone
advanced vocabulary

Choose one character from the myth "Atalanta, the Fleet-Footed Huntress" and

explain how and why that character changes over the course of the myth. Describe

at least one conflict that character faces. Use evidence from the text to support your

answer.

In this poem, Walt Whitman writes about how Americans "sing" as they work. What does
he mean? Why does he think that work is like a song?

I need a wo MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is taking notes beneficial to a student?

Read the excerpt from “Tools of the Spymaster." General Gates's troops held their ground. Benedict Arnold, one of Gates's generals, argued for a counterattack that would smash the British force. Gates, outraged that Arnold would challenge his order, took away his command. But the rash Arnold saw a chance to strike a crucial blow. He galloped through the crossfire of both armies, inspiring his men. A bullet struck his leg, but he rode on, leading the final assault that shattered the British fortifications. If he had died of his wounds that day, Arnold would be remembered as one of the great heroes of the Revolutionary War. What evidence in the excerpt suggests that Benedict Arnold was a brave soldier? He did not die from his wounds in the battle. General Gates took away his command. A bullet struck his leg when he crossed the battlefield. He galloped through the crossfire of both armies.

What does the Nightingale do at the end of stanza I?

Read the excerpt from Story of My Life by Helen Keller.
Which detail from the excerpt is a minor detail that is
not necessary in a summary?
be
O Laura Bridgman had dressed the doll that Miss
Sullivan gave to Helen.
O After Helen played with her doll, Miss Sullivan
spelled the word "d-o-1-1" into Helen's hand.
O Helen copied Miss Sullivan and made the letters for
doll with her hand,
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her
room and gave me a doll. The little blind children at the
Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had
dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward. When
I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly
spelled into my hand the word "d-0-1-1." I was at once
interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When
I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was
flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running
downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made
the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a
word or even that words existed; I was simply making
my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that
followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way
a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a
few verbs like sit, stand and walk. But my teacher had
been with me several weeks before I understood that
everything has a name.
O Helen learned to spell many words with her fingers
but she did not understand their meaning.

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

What is the central idea of the first quatrain?

My mistress is unattractive.
My mistress is beautiful.
My mistress has a natural beauty.
My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.

Please help me is easy but I don’t get it I need help please?

Which lines most fully support an interpretation that the speaker feels the nonpoets of the modern world have a misguided perspective?
А
Lines 11-12 ("And make ... door")
B
Lines 14-15 ("To grow...go-getter")
с
Line 24 ("No longer
dreams)
D
Line 33 ("A wordy ... problems")
E
Lines 38-39 ("Grow up
wants")

What’s is a cultural diversity? In your own words

Read the lines from "She Walks in Beauty."
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies

1. Have you ever experience being unsatisfied with yourself? Why? Or why not?
2. which attitude or yours do you think that triggers you to be dissatisfied with yourself?
3. What made you realize to change it into a better one?
4. And how did you overcome your discrepancies in yourself.

What are the six segments of the travel Industry? Give examples of each.​

Which sentence describes the plot of a myth?

The daughter of a goddess is kidnapped and made to live underground for half of the year.

A man realizes that he is a "superhero" to his young son and daughter.

A dog and cat wander along a road, hoping someone will rescue them together.

A monkey tricks a crocodile into carrying him across the river to a banana tree.

Mark is writing to the council to contest a parking fine. Select the sentences that contain language inappropriate for a formal text.


Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m not happy at all about receiving a fine for parking at the local supermarket. I am certain I was not there longer than 45 minutes and should not, therefore, be fined. But here I am, holding a letter from you saying that, somehow, I was in fact there for nearly an hour! As if! If you can prove it, I’ll pay it – and not a penny from me until you do!

Regards,

Grant

Is it correct to say this or is there a better way of saying, " I don’t think she is a native of this country. She doesn’t look or sound like someone from this geographical boundary "

8 Choose the correct item

1 At 9 am tomorrow, we will be studying/ will
have studied on the new computer course.
2 By next May, Fred will be having/will have had
3 Will you be seeing/Will you have seen Kieran
later? I need to give him back his lecture
4 Susan won't be completing/won't have
completed her degree by next September
5 Harry will have worked/will be working in the
6 By the time we get to the museum, the
exhibition will have closed/will be closing.
7 How much of the work will you have done!
* Choose the correct item.
his driving licence for twenty years,
notes.
science lab all day tomorrow.
will you be doing by the time I arrive?
8 Maria won't be working/won't have worked
when I get there tomorrow - she's taking the
day off.​

what is meaning for leg
in hindi
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Read the following paragraph from the
Introduction (paragraphs 1-2).
Election results have sometimes
been questioned in the United
States. In fact, the country has a
long history of contested elections.
With one exception, they have not
badly damaged the American
political system.
Which word from the paragraph provides
context clues to the meaning of the word
"contested"?

What was it about Mount Everest that the author found irresistible​

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tell the history of a famous family​

(ELA) Which Hindu god became part elephant?

A. Ra
B. Krishna
C. Ganesha
D. Zeus

how were the boats that set sail thousands of years ago like modern spaceships ?
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