read the excerpt from "the great san francisco fire."
the first fire to break out after the quake was at a chinese laundry across the street from a
firehouse. however, there was no water to fight it since the water mains had been ruptured
by the quake. the main reservoirs of water for the city were 20 miles away, and some of the
pipelines to them had been destroyed because they were constructed along the quake's
fault line. the blaze soon roared like a seething, famished beast lapping up its spoils. then
two massive fires flared up within two blocks of each other in the western addition section
of the city. another one broke out in the mission district. in the downtown area dozens of
fires erupted. firefighters were able to quell the flames in the western addition with the
use of three fire engines. the fire in the mission district was subdued with water found
blocks away in a hydrant. then the firefighters began to head downtown to try and extinguish
the fiery deluge there. most of the large fires downtown became one. at one point it
became a three-mile-wide wall of raging flames with billowing black clouds of smoke. in one
area, a cistern that held 100,000 gallons of water was drained completely without making a
dent in the spewing blaze. fireboats sprayed water in a desperate attempt to quash the
fuming flames along the waterfront.
which sentence from the paragraph uses a cause-and-effect structure?
"the first fire to break out after the quake was at a chinese laundry across the street
from a firehouse."
"the fire in the mission district was subdued with water found blocks away in a
hydrant."
"then two massive fires flared up within two blocks of each other in the western
addition section of the city."
"however, there was no water to fight it since the water mains had been ruptured by
the quake."

"However, there was no water to fight it since the water mains had been ruptured by the quake."

Explanation:

The sentence from the paragraph that uses a cause-and-effect structure is this one. In this example, the author explains that there was an incident: the water mains had been ruptured by the quake. This is the "cause." Moreover, this cause led to an effect. The effect is that there was no water to fight the fire. Cause-and-effect is one of the most common and useful types of structures.

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the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.