Article: The method his soldiers used Memoir:
By the time my mother married my father,
however, she knew all about the true nature of
the dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in
failed attempts to return the country to
democracy. Family friends, whom she had
assumed had dropped away of their own accord,
turned out to have been disappeared. My father
had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly
escaped to Canada after the plot he had
participated in as a student failed. This was to be
the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El
Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of
some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come
across the border to work on sugarcane
plantations for slave wages. It was from my
Which statement about the two passages is accurate?
Each text presents a different topic but uses the
same tone and point of view.
Each text presents the same topic using a different
tone and point of view.
O Each text presents a different topic but uses the
same tone and serves the same purpose.
O Each text presents the same topic using the same
point of view, but for a different purpose.

The “big dig” the “big dig” (the central artery/tunnel project) has been complex and challenging. located in boston, massachusetts, this tunnel is eight lanes wide and three-and-a-half miles long. what is most amazing about this tunnel is that it is constructed under a major highway and skyscrapers located in boston’s financial district. construction crews used “clamshell excavators” during this dig. these machines carved narrow trenches, and then a special substance was pumped into the trench to keep the dirt from caving in. finally, steel beams were lowered into the trench and concrete was pumped in. one problem that engineers faced while constructing the tunnel is the fact that the soil beneath boston is extremely loose and soggy. engineers solved this dilemma by freezing the soil and pumping very cold water into pipes beneath the city. to strengthen the soil even further, a special type of glue was injected into the ground to with the consolidation of the soil. 23 which phrase best defines the word excavator as used in the passage? a. a device used to measure underground temperatures b. a device used to level uneven surfaces c. a device used to move heavy objects d. a device used to dig holes