“As I traveled over Qin Mountain one morning, I met two fairies, of brightness and beauty, Riding on a white deer. I realized they were immortals, And kneeled and begged for the Dao. ‘Go west and climb the Jade Terrace, There are gold pavilions and corridors.’ They gave me an immortal elixir. ‘Your longevity will match that of gold and jade, And you will never reach senility.’” —Cao Zhi, Han Dynasty poet, as quoted in Empires Ascedent: Time Frame 400 B. C.–A. D. 200 “Your longevity will match that of gold and jade” means a. the poet will turn to stone. c. the poet will never die. b. the poet will turn to metal. d. the poet will be wealthy. Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

C.

Explanation:

"Your longevity will match that of gold and jade"

This is an example of how they would want riches and immortality rather than normal life.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)