Read the passage from when birds get flu by john diconsiglio. the two men were heading to the tiny village of srisomboon. it was september 2004. an 11-year-old girl had fallen ill after playing with some sick chickens. at first, it seemed like a bad case of the flu. but the girl kept getting sicker. in the hospital, her mother held her for hours. then early in the morning, the girl died. soon, her mother began to feel sick. the mother died, too. dr. dowell is an epidemiologist. his job is to figure out what makes people sick—and to keep diseases from spreading to others. he feared that the little girl and her mother had died from the rare bird flu. in this passage, the author mainly a. provides evidence. b. draws a conclusion. c. introduces a question. d. supplements the story.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,