Read the paragraph.
forests are more than just a pretty addition to the landscape. forests the environment by soaking up carbon dioxide, conserving soil, and preventing flooding. forests people by providing a place to live and by providing jobs. over 300 million people worldwide live in forests, and over 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their jobs.
which best revises a sentence from the paragraph by adding an appropriate transition?
similarly, forests are more than just a pretty addition to the landscape.
for example, forests the environment by soaking up carbon dioxide, conserving soil, and preventing flooding.
however, forests people by providing a place to live and by providing jobs.
to summarize, over 300 million people worldwide live in forests, and over 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their jobs.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.