Choose the letter of the word or phrase that best matches the capitalized word.
1. during the long spelling bee the young contestant was indefatigable. (1 point)
unbeatable
inexhaustible
optimistic
single-minded
2. the invincible athlete won three gold medals. (1 point)
courageous
arrogant
unbeatable
demanding
3. even though it was clear she did not understand the concepts, she dementedly rambled about her failed math test. (1 point)
loudly
sadly
endlessly
madly
4. the fashion show for celebrity impersonators was an ostentatious presentation. (1 point)
showy
loud
tasteful
rude
5. when the school's mascot danced up and down the hallway the children were oblivious to their teacher's wishes. (1 point)
responsive
obnoxious
considerate
unaware

[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