Read the following and answer the question. 1. A baby python is only a foot or two long. 2. But, within a year, it can grow to over five feet. 3. A big snake eats a lot and needs a big cage. 4. Some people let their pets go if they can’t afford to care for them anymore. 5. This is irresponsible and illegal. 6. If you are thinking about getting a pet, do your research. 7. And, if you have a pet snake you can no longer keep, find someone to adopt it. Why might the author give an opinion in this article?
a to persuade the reader not to release snakes into the wild.
b to teach the reader how to care for snakes
c because the author is afraid of snakes
d because the author loves snakes

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion, metaphor, personification, symbolism and simile

How does the author create a surprise ending? cite evidence from the text to support your answer.