A student is writing an article for her student newspaper about a new club at her school. Read the draft of the article and complete the task that follows. It's Thursday afternoon, and Mrs. Martinez's room is buzzing with excitement. The students who have formed the robotics club are meeting for the first time. "I've been hoping to be in a club like this for a long time," Jose Torres says. "It feels good to be around people who have the same interests as me." Many students nod in agreement with Jose Torres; they all seem to feel the same way.

The meeting opens with Mrs. Martinez showing pictures of different robots. Students discuss the idea of each robot, the things it performs, and the mechanics involved in making it. The discussion is very interesting. After being a part of the meeting, this reporter wants to join the club!

Read the underlined sentence from the paragraph. Choose two words that would be more precise to replace the words “idea” and “things” in the sentence.

a

items

b

factors

c

functions

d

business

e

thought

f

features

Type the correct answer in the box. use numerals instead of words. if necessary, use / for the fraction bar. the length of each side of a square increases by 2.5 inches to form a new square with a perimeter of 70 inches. the length of each side of the original square was inches.

Who are the antagonists in the story "ali baba and the 40 thieves", and are they're bad guys?

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)