Which sentence should be revised to eliminate conflicting
information?
sentence 1
Read the paragraph.
(1) Baseball is unique because it is the only sport in
America that does not have a time clock-although tennis
and softball are not timed, either. (2) Instead, games last
for nine innings, unless there is a tie after the ninth, in
which case they go extra innings. (3) Nine-inning games
last an average of three hours. (4) Extra innings tack on
time to an already long game, but the end is always the
most exciting part. (5) Most people in the US watch
baseball and are fans of their hometown team
sentence 2
sentence 3
sentence 4

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Which is it? the desert is than the mountains? 1. drier 2. more dry