Read the passage.

monkeys

my favorite exhibit at the zoo is the monkey enclosure; the monkeys' antics never fail to bring a smile to my face, no matter how my day is going. i like watching the baby monkeys swing from branch to branch, playfully hitting at one another as they fly by. the other day, one mischievous monkey sat high up in the trees, tossing bits of fruit at the other monkeys on the ground below. his chattering could be heard throughout the zoo as his friends tried to run for cover among the bushes.

which word from the passage best illustrates the feeling of amusement?

hitting

enclosure

monkeys

mischievous

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21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.