Comprehension
This is most likely the cause of the great changes that happen to the town in the reading selection.
What are pesticides?
Doing this would cause a farmer's crops to rot and die.
What is blight?
Before the changes take place we can conclude this about the town.
What is the town attracts visitors who enjoy the outdoor activities?
True or False: Hearing and touch are 2 senses used to describe the imagery in this sentence.
Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings
What is false? Sight and hearing is the correct answer.
This mood expresses a statement of fact.
What is an indicative mood?
Before everything begins to change the town is described as this.
What is prosperous and beautiful?
If you feel ill you are a person with this.
What is maladies?
The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams.... is an example from the selection that describes this about the town.
How the town was before the changes took place?
This is the mood from these sentences.
There was a strange stillness. Where had the birds gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The few birds that were seen trembled violently and could not fly.
What is mysterious and frightening?
I wish that the bird were healthy expresses this mood.
What is a subjunctive mood?
The reason doctors are puzzled is because of this.
What is more people are becoming sick from new kinds of illnesses?
Late at night not a soul was to be seen on Roosevelt Avenue. This sentence best describes this.
What is deserted?
This person or thing is responsible for the white powder that has fallen on the town and its surroundings.
Where are humans living in or near town?
These words show negative connotations in the following sentences.
Some evil spell had had settled on the community:
mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens, the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was the shadow of death. Hint: there are 4 words.
What are evil, sickened, died and death?
Insects are often harmful to farm crops illustrates this mood.
What is the indicative mood?
This is how plants change after the town changes.
What is many plants wither and die?
The meaning of the Old English suffix -ness is this.
What is the quality of being?
This is the main purpose of the writing Silent Spring.
What is to warn people about a dangerous practice?
This happens to the adjective sick if you add the suffix -ness to it.
What is it turns the word into a noun meaning the condition of being sick?