Read the passage about dogs in the classroom. Which two sentences give the best description of the passage? Did you know that children who read to a dog can improve their reading skills? That’s one reason why it may be a good idea to have dogs in the classroom. Studies have also shown that spending time with animals can help calm a child’s nervousness. Children who are less nervous learn better and more easily. A study from the University of California backs up this idea. In the study, third graders read to a dog for 10–15 minutes once a week for 10 weeks. Even this small amount of time with a dog improved the third graders’ reading skills by 12 percent. What’s more, other studies have found that being with a pet can create a sense of responsibility in children.

Being around pets benefits kids who need to learn responsibility.
Bringing pets to school is a good idea for both students and their teachers.
Being around pets can improve children’s ability to learn.
A study by University of California found that reading to dogs improved third graders’ reading skills.

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

What is the main way a sequence of events is used to resolve a conflict?