Read this sentence from paragraph 6 of the story "lifetime service."
stories were shared about my grandfather construct additions to neighbors’ homes, dredging the town lake in the 1960s so that kids could actually swim in it, offering sage advice to other entrepreneurs who wanted to start businesses in town, and offering service as a volunteer firefighter for years.
drag the phrase that means dredging into the box to complete the sentence.
the builders were the lake to create a place for kids to swim.
a. adding more water to
b. removing wild life from
c testing water samples from

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of animal farm. transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. the horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even muriel and benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share. by late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs. what statement best identifies how the pacing in this passage contributes to the plot? slow pacing allows suspense to build about the outcome of the building. quick pacing allows a long process to be shown in a few sentences. a flashback reveals the reason for the work. foreshadowing to future events gives readers insight into the consequences of the windmill.