1. Which quote from the article supports the idea that a free newspaper wouldn't be a good financial idea?
A. "Both are part of a growing trend among publishers looking to attract younger readers
who get much of their news from the Internet and have not adopted the daily newspaper
habit of their parents' generation."
B. "The city's newspapers include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New York
Post and New York Daily News tabloids, as well as free offerings like alternative weekly The
Village Voice.
C. "It is too soon to tell if free dailies, aimed at people ages 18 to 34, are siphoning off readers
from traditional U. S. newspapers."
D. "Industry analysts say the business model of free dailies, based on selling advertising instead of
charging for the newspaper itself, generally is low-cost for publishers."
2. What does the following quote mean, "The newspaper industry has got to continue to reinvent

Complete the paragraph about imperialism

1. what is the best example of the use of rhyme? a. the beat of drum b. fresh green grass c. a wild little child d. the kindness of strangers 2. which of the following is always true about a haiku? a. it has one three-line stanza b. it has a specific rhyme scheme of abab c. it uses alliteration d. it expresses thoughts or feelings of a single speaker 3. what is the best example a simile? a. marty’s shout rattled the windows b. her voice was clear as a bell c. he is a bear in the morning d. the blossoms in the garden nodded

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant