For many years, trade and travel between the united states and china were not allowed. a 1971 ping-pong tournament in japan to change that. an american player and a chinese player at the tournament met, shook hands, and exchanged gifts. in response to this friendly meeting, china's leader, mao zedong, invited the american ping-pong team to visit china. this official chinese welcome led to talks between the chinese and american leaders. the talks resulted in opening travel and trade between the two countries. what text stucture is this

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

Identifying parts of a chemical equation identify each part of this chemical equation that describes the burning of methane and oxygen. b (blue box): d (number): e (purple box):