Read the passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio.

The human version of mad cow resembles a rare brain disease called variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). It seems to affect mostly young adults. It strikes five or more years after the victim ate bad meat. In every case, the infected person has died.

Perhaps the best news about mad cow is that people do not catch it easily. Chances are, millions of people have eaten infected beef. But, for reasons scientists still do not understand, only about 150 people have gotten vCJD and died from it.

Which cause-and-effect signal words in the passage point to the result of a problem?

A) the human version
B) in every case
C) chances are
D) but, for reasons

Time remaining 59: 46 which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? read the excerpt from the odyssey. out to sea again! ' my men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting.-while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of cicones this was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. they came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. so doom appeared to us, dark word of zeus for us, our evil days. the forces sent by cicones to fight odysseus and his men arrived during the early morning hours. odysseus and his men feasted on the animals they slaughtered while on the island of cicones the forces sent by cicones to stop the plundering of odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful odysseus views the forces sent by cicones as punishment from the greek god zeus. mark this and retum save and exit save and exit next sub subunit

The duke and the dauphin lie, cheat, and steal for the purposes of their own survival. answers: •true •false

Which two pieces of evidence support the idea that coal is underutilized? this was on study island about coal