Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be made from this graph?
390
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Measured at Mauna Loa, Hawaii
380
370
360
350
Annual Cycle
340
330
320
Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan
1310
1990 2000 2010
1970
1980
1960
a. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been decreasing since
1960.
b. Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide.
c. Humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide
levels.
d. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily since
1960s.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief