Choose the correct words or phrases (a or b) to complete the text. My sister (has played/played) chess since she was a child. When she was seven years old, our grandfather (has given/gave) her a chessboard and (has taught/taught) her how to play. She (has loved/loved) the game and (has played/played) every day. Two years later, she (has won/won) a prize in a national competition. Since then, she (has taken/took) part in competitions around the world. She (has met/met) chess players from many different countries too. (Has she ever lost/ Did she ever lost) a game? 'Of course!' she says ' (I've lost/ I lost) lots of games. But every time I lose, I learn something new'.

Using the impress program, you can add multimedia files, including audio, image, and video files, to the presentation by using the insert menu. the media menu. the edit menu. the add menu.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Keeping wolves as pets is wrong. wolves are not pets. they're wild and natural-born killers. people who keepwolves in captivity are self-centered and vain. they thinkit's some kind of status symbol to own a wolf. but wolvesneed to roam free, participate in the thrill of the hunt, filltheir bellies with raw meat, and socialize with their packmates. which type of appeal does the passage primarily use? oa. ethos