Choose the two sentences that describe the exposition and the conclusion of the plot in this story.
a) jonathan congratulated his friend david upon making the team.
b) the coach all the players for trying out for the team.
c) the coach explained the system he used to reveal who made the team.
d) jonathan opened his envelope to discover that he did not make the team.
e) david's father taught david a lesson about being graceful in misfortune.

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.

How does the play resolve the conflict between conscience and law? creon acts according to the law, not the conscience of advisors, and is punished. each character chooses familial loyalty over civil obedience and is punished. the deaths of haemon and eurydice fulfill the prophecy. creon sentences antigone to death even though haemon asks him to reconsider.

Which poems include the theme that memories of beautiful natural places benefit the people who recall them? "to spring" and "lines written in early spring" "to autumn" and "to a butterfly" "to summer" and "the human seasons" "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and "lines on a beautiful spring in a village"