Every year since its beginning, our town's Old Home Days celebration has resulted in traffic accidents. Luckily, no one has been seriously
injured, but it is clear that we need better traffic control during the
festivities. Parents who pull over on Main Street to drop off kids cause
other drivers to pull around them, creating a dangerous situation. To
avoid this, the police who stop traffic for pedestrians to cross Main
Street should be located at more than one spot. It is the responsibility
of the drivers to be careful, but we can make their job easier by making
some simple changes
Which best states the central idea of the passage?
O A. No one has ever been seriously injured during Old Home Days.
B. Children being left unattended at Old Home Days are causing
problems
C. The town needs to make changes to improve traffic safety during
Old Home Days.
D. Police need to do a better job of directing traffic at Old Home
Days

What is one thing that happened to benno harte when he and his family left france to escape the nazis?

Read this passage: many manufacturers prefer plastic as a material for containers because it can be molded into many shapes. but plastic is not very strong. it must be fused with glass or steel for strength. it is also not very durable. even the strongest plastic can break under enough pressure. the biggest disadvantage to using plastic is that it does not decompose. while plastic can be recycled, doing so is tedious and difficult. while it may be more expensive and difficult to work with, aluminum is a much stronger building material with far greater tensile strength. it conducts electricity because it is metal. best of all, aluminum is very easy to recycle. even if it is thrown away, it decomposes much more quickly than most manufacturing materials. how does the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern of the passage support the author's purpose? a. the passage gradually leads up to the point about decomposition to inform the reader about the importance of recycling plastics. b. the passage lists the advantages and disadvantages of each material to make a case for the use of plastic and not aluminum in containers. c. the passage begins with a description of plastic's problems in order to call attention to the good qualities of aluminum. d. the passage shows the superiority of aluminum in order to make a case for the production of stronger plastics.

Identifying parts of a chemical equation identify each part of this chemical equation that describes the burning of methane and oxygen. b (blue box): d (number): e (purple box):