Which best characterizes the effect of the woman wearing “traditional clothing”?
a) long-term effect: females were no longer permitted to cycle. b) long-term effect: the rider was injured while riding her bicycle. c) short-term effect: females no longer wore dresses while cycling. d) short-term effect: the rider fell off the bicycle after her skirt got caught.

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".