L 3.4.5 Quiz: Introductions Which sentence order creates the most logical sequence for an introductory paragraph? Sentence A: Counting both professional leagues and casual players, soccer is played by more people than any other sport. An estimated one billion people worldwide watched television coverage of the final game of the 2014 World Cup. Sentence B: Soccer is an exciting and popular sport that deserves more recognition and support in the United States. Sentence C: The whoosh of the ball as it flies into the net. The roar of the crowd as a goal is scored. Is any sport more thrilling than soccer? A. C, B, A PREVIOUS a. c, b,a b. b, c,a c. c, a,b d. a, b,c

[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