Garden Surprise Gardening was hard on her back, but she loved it, especially after spending two weeks with her grandchildren in Louisiana. They were fun, but everything was calmer back home. The weeding was the worst for her back — it required so much stooping. But this day she skipped the weeding and worked instead on rebuilding the narrow brick path through the taller flowering plants. Some of the bricks had broken up and crumbled, so she thought she'd reroute the path as long as she was at it. But she found a strange thing in the dirt where she planned to move the path. It was shaped like a daisy and seemed to be made of rock, maybe fossilized rock, and she was sure it hadn't been there last fall when she had last raked.
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Here are the text aids for a passage.
A.
What kinds of plants does the woman grow in the garden?
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How does the Surprising thing get into the garden?
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Why does the woman' s back hurt from weeding?

Which excerpts from the war of the worldseffectively use setting to provide a contrast to the horror of the plot? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldshe remained standing at the edge of the pit that the thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival. the early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards weybridge, was already warm.they shouted consolation and promises, and went off back to the town again to get . one can imagine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows.it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. the burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke.an enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. the heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.