(1) jack-o'-lantern mushrooms—which have the scientific name omphalotus illudens—are orange mushrooms that grow in north america. (2) jack-o'-lantern mushrooms take their name from their orange color and from another interesting feature. (3) many people try to find these mushrooms in the fall to see their eerie glow, but they can be difficult to spot. (4) people should not pick jack-o'-lantern mushrooms as they are toxic and can make humans very ill. (5) the best way to appreciate these unique mushrooms is to see them growing in the wild. which of these supporting details best fits after sentence 2? a) jack-o'-lantern mushrooms grow east of the rocky mountains. b) jack-o'-lantern mushrooms grow in bunches on decaying wood and leaves. c) the gills of jack-o'-lantern mushrooms give off a faint, glowing light. d) some people confuse jack-o'-lantern mushrooms with nontoxic chanterelles.

The rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. which choice combines these two sentences from paragraph two to achieve a coherent flow of ideas? a) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden" and permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. b) permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago and the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." c) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden; " and so the permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. d) because of the rich natural resources which made the sacramento valley a ‘garden of eden,’ native americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

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