The remains of the pharaoh (is, are intact, and the wrappings of the mummy (contain, contains clues about his life. which verbs correctly complete the sentence? are, contain are, contains is, contains is, contain

The remains of the pharaoh are intact, and the wrappings of the mummy contain clues about his life.

We need to use "are" instead of "is" is because the verb to be is referring to the remains. Therefore, it needs to be a plural verb to go with the noun. Likewise, we need to use contain instead of contain because it referrs to wrappings. In the present tense, we only add -s to the verb if we are talking about he, she, or it.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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