Read this passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. Hughes was assigned to find infected cow parts at meat processing plants in Washington. He remembers the sad look on some owners’ faces when he flashed his badge. If there was a chance that any of their meat might have mad cow, they’d have to throw it all away.

"The business they built from scratch was destroyed—through no fault of their own. And there was nothing they could do about it," Hughes says.

The tone in this passage most suggests that Hughes is

caring.
dedicated.
tense.
focused.

Which of these sentences is the correct one?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Awell-worded thesis statement is both and generally acceptable . . broad agreeable . . limited significant . . limited significant . . broa