Which word in this excerpt from HG Wells's The War of the Worlds provides a context clue to the meaning of the word descended? I was at home at that hour and writing in my study, and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved
in those days to look up at the night skyl. I saw nothing of it. Yet this “strangest” of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have
fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it “passed”. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing
sound. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most have thought
that another meteorite had |descended|. No one seems to have “troubled” to look for the “fallen” mass that night.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

You visit two websites about inventions of the 21st century. one has .edu in the url address and the other has .com. which site is more likely to be credible and why? (6 points) select one: a. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because all .com sites are trying to sell you something. b. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because its domain is a university or other school type. c. the .com site is more likely to be credible because all .edu sites are personal college student blogs. d. the .com site is more likely to be credible because its owners review all the content before publishing.

The process in which applications are reviewed based on academic performance completion of rigorous course work and extracurricular activities is called