A man was walking home from work late one evening when he spotted a bright blue piece of paper on the pavement. Looking closer, he realized that it was a lottery ticket. He grabbed it and went home at once. He was skeptical about winning lotteries. Even so, he switched on his TV to watch the announcement of the winning lottery numbers. As the announcer read each number, the man’s heart began to beat faster. Every single number announced was on the ticket he had found. When the announcer called out the last number, the man could not believe his ears. He had won $20 million! He jumped up with joy and began skipping around his house. He thought about all the things he was going to buy with the lottery money. While hopping around with excitement, he hit his leg on a table, tripped, and fell facedown. He woke up with a start and realized that he was in bed. He fumbled around in his sleep looking for the ticket. It was only then that he realized he’d been dreaming! The lottery ticket wasn’t real. With a groan, he lay back down and cursed his bad luck.

A.
It’s very easy to get money without working hard.
B.
Some things are too good to be true.
C.
People make their own luck.
D.
Dreams almost never come true.
E.
The desire for wealth makes a person greedy.

(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.”)

Constructed response paragraph: in the short story, the author describes her life during her “day away” but provides few details about her “normal” life. using information from the text, write a short story that describes events that precede the story above. as you detail the author’s daily routine before her “day away,” be sure your narrative establishes the story’s setting, first-person point of view, and primary conflict.

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives