Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that growing monocultures can be risky? A. “American farmers grow wheat, soybeans, corn, and other foodstuffs, and it’s an
impressive sight.”
B. “Every cornstalk in the cornfield is exactly like its neighbors, with the same DNA.”
C. “If one cornstalk in the field can be killed easily by an attacker, so can all the rest.”
D. “One problem was that we didn’t have the science to know what had gone wrong; people didn’t know about DNA.”
E. “The cell can read DNA like a cookbook, finding recipes that tell how to make other molecules that it needs.”
F. “They look in gene banks for a strain of wheat that fights that pest well.”

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

Which words in this excerpt from the count of monte cristo can be used as synonyms to determine the meaning of the word grotto? dant? s entered the second grotto. the second grotto was lower and more gloomy than the first; the air that could only enter by the newly formed opening had the mephitic smell dant? s was surprised not to find in the outer cavern. he waited in order to allow pure air to displace the foul atmosphere, and then went on. 1. air 2. opening 3. mephitic 4. cavern 5. pure 6. atmosphere

How does moon shadow beliefs about dragons him to understand what is happening