Read the introduction from a biology book. Think about the way your body feels after a swim in a cold pool. Think about the way your body feels after a hot bath. Temperature affects human beings in many ways. How does temperature affect plants? Do they photosynthesize faster in cold weather or hot? Students can measure the way sugar is transported within a plant at different temperatures to find these answers. According to the introduction, why are plants being studied? to see how much heat is produced by plants to see if growth is improved in a cold pool to see how temperature affects plants to see if plants grow better with sugar water

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.