My three _ (Canada) friends, Mark, Milt, and Marsha love 5-pin bowling. The game, a (vary) on the more widely known 10-pin game, is played only in Canada. In the game, players try to knock down five_ (relative) small pins, as compared to the larger ones (typical) used in 10-pin bowling. Also, the ball the players use to knock the pins down is much smaller and lighter than the one used in the 10-pin game. The 5-pin game was devised in the early 1900s by the owner of a bowling alley who had received many _ (complain) about the _ (difficult) of playing the 10-pin game. He adapted, or changed, the game to make it easier for people to play. His (adapt) was a huge success! It made the game _ (access) to more people—especially children, who could _ (easy) lift and toss the lighter ball. To this day, 5-pin bowling remains a popular form of _(entertain) for everyone in Canada—including my three friends, whose first stop on a trip home is the bowling alley!

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant