Which of these statements BEST reflects the main idea of the passage? A. some houses are made of strange materials, such as ice, while others are built with strange shape
or structures.

B. The physical conditions of the places where people live determine what kind of home they will have.

C. People consider many factors, such as physical conditions, materials, and personal preferences,
when building homes.

D. Most houses throughout the world are made out of wood because it is inexpensive and easily
available.

Match the term to its description.an elder masquerading as an1. agbalailancestral spirit2. egwugwuan evil spirit which constantlyreincarnates itself in the wombmurder or manslaughter3. ochu4. ogbanjea woman or a man without a title

[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

Your state government is planning to stop the payment of registration fees for ssce student in your state. write a letter to the governor of the state to continue with the gesture of good will