1)At the age of 16, Kyle McCarthy cradled the limp body of a snow leopard. He had helped his father, Dr. Tom McCarthy, track the big cat among boulders in Mongolia and then use a drug to make it go to sleep. Dr. McCarthy put a radio collar on the sleeping animal before setting the cat free, unharmed.

(2)“You can’t hold a snow leopard and not feel like that’s probably one of the peaks in your life,” says Kyle. “The animal is so powerful when it’s awake, so beautiful, and so rarely seen.”

(3)Kyle became a wildlife biologist like his father. Years later, he traveled to Kyrgyzstan in central Asia to help protect snow leopards.

What is the central idea of paragraphs 1-3?
Seeing a snow leopard at a young age affected one scientist for his entire life.

A snow leopard is an extremely powerful and beautiful animal.

Scientists use a type of drug to make an animal go to sleep when they are studying it.

Older children often go along with their scientist parents on research trips.

In at least 150 words, identify and describe the setting, and the way the author uses imagery to describe it for part 1 of nectar in a sieve.

How does this comparison reinforce what powell is trying to say in this paragraph

Consider the text and its central idea. informational text: one privilege that many teens look forward to is the ability to earn a driver’s license. driver’s licensing requirements are not the same in every state. in some states, young people can be fully licensed before their sixteenth birthday. in other states, the privilege to drive has some restrictions until the driver is eighteen years old. in every state, driver education is a required step in earning a license. students might earn a permit, or provisional license, and spend six months to a year driving with an adult in the car. since states are very different based on population, development, and roadways, the laws are different, too. central idea: states makes different laws about licensing drivers with some similar requirements. what supporting detail is most important to include in a summary of this text? teens get excited about learning to drive. in some states, kids can get their license on their birthday. some states are heavily populated, with dangerous roads to navigate. every state includes driver education as part of licensing requirements.