One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. These men were lawyers, and
they were going to the next town to attend court
There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft Water was dripping from the trees, and the grass was
wet. The four lawyers rode along, one behind another, for the pathway was narrow, and the mud on each
side of it was deep. They rode slowly, and talked and laughed and were very jolly. As they were passing
through a grove of small trees, they heard a great fluttering over their heads and a feeble chirping in the
grass by the roadside.
"Stith! Stith! stith!" came from the leafy branches above them. "Cheep cheepl cheep!" came from the wet
grass. "What is the matter here?" asked the first lawyer, whose name was Speed. "Oh, it's only some old
robins!" said the second lawyer, whose name was Hardin. "The storm has blown two of the little ones out of
the nest. They are too young to fly, and the mother bird is making a great fuss about it."
"What a pity! They'll die down there in the grass," said the third lawyer, whose name I forget
"Oh, well! They're nothing but birds," said Mr. Hardin. "Why should we bother?"
"Yes, why should we?" said Mr. Speed.
What is the time period of this text? How do you know? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. Your answer
should be 3 to 4 sentences.

4- en el restaurante fill in the blanks with complete sentences using the cues and the preterite form of the verbs.

Which of the following words best describes gregors life as expressed in this passage a.) excitingb.)surprisingc.)satisfying d.)demanding

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm