Answer:
1. According to the text, Anders described the view of Earth before Earthrise as portrayed in the image. They have seen the vision of the Earth behind the lunar horizon as they float through the space.
2. The Mission Summary and Splashdown are not portrayed in the image but are in the text. The text tells us the brief history of what happened back then.
3. The mood of the text is quite similar to the what is being conveyed by the image as it represents visual examples of Earthrise experience. The text also describes the image which corresponds with one another.
4. When words meet pictures, readers try to understand text through virsual representation of the image. Creating mental images while reading will improve comprehension as it will help readers visualize the details in the text.
Explanation:
Answer:
A "The spring of 1998 was the Halley’s Comet of desert wildflower years." (lines 1–2)
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's scientific essey "Called Out". It describes events in the spring of 1998 and gives insight on magnificent and complex life cycle of desert plants.
The given sentence provides description of the highway medians suggesting that there were unusually many flowers, rarely seen before.
That provides evidence to answer A. which claims that that spring was the Halley's Comet of desert wildflower years. Halley's Comet is a rare phenomenon that happens only once every 76 years, so by making this comparison, the author claims that what happened that spring was a true botanical rarity.
Answer:
Anyone who is interested in history will like James Cross Giblin’s The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone because Giblin gives a lot of information about ancient Greek and Egyptian history.
Explanation:
This is the opinion that is supported by evidence. Option B provides a statement of fact. Option C is also written as a fact, which is why the author uses the world "clearly" to convey it. Option D is similarly not written as an opinion. Option A is clearly an opinion because the author has no way of knowing whether everyone who is interested in history will like the text. However, he has evidence that provides support to his opinion.
An example of a simile is the following:
"The tree was as thin as a hound dog."
As in the sentence above, a simile is a figure of speech which compares two different things, in order to make the description more intense or forceful. Another example could be:
"The man is as tall as a giraffe."
