Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. serious though influenza and malaria are, they are not the biggest killers of the age. that title belongs to the plague or "pestilence.” no one knows precisely how many die over the course of the reign but the total is probably around 250,000. in 1565 the people of bristol count up the plague victims for that year and arrive at the figure of 2,070, almost 20 percent of the population. ten years later, after another deadly outbreak, they record a further 2,000 fatalities. what is the central idea of this paragraph? another name for the plague in the 1500s was “the pestilence.” in 1565 almost 20 percent of the population died of the plague. the plague was the most deadly disease of the elizabethan era. malaria and influenza killed almost as many people as the plague.

Read the section "trump wants a change in terms."which sentence from the section shows why there are discussions about the future of nafta? a)he has said that he wants to change the terms of the agreement and has even threatened to pull the u. s. out of nafta. b)in response, negotiators from all three countries have been meeting to discuss possible changes to the agreement. c)the sixth round of talks was held in montreal, canada, on january 29.d)nafta has allowed goods to travel freely across north america.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Read this excerpt of "from blossoms": from laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside, succulentpeaches we devour, dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat. which word create a positive mood?