HELP ME PLEASE ITS URGENT HELP ME PLEASE ITS URGENT HELP ME PLEASE ITS URGENT Read the excerpt from "Can Eating Less Meat Cool the Climate?"

“More recent scientific studies have been even more alarming. They have found that livestock are responsible for a whopping 51 percent of greenhouse gases. According to these studies, livestock produce more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, airplanes, trains and ships in the world combined”.

How does the use of the word whopping affect tone of the excerpt?

It makes the tone feel calm.

It makes the tone feel urgent.

It makes the tone feel cheerful.

It makes the tone feel comical.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.