Read the following excerpt from "woman who hide anne frank dies at 100" by teri schultz. schultz: but gies clearly was very special, even when someone still unknown betrayed those she called the hiders and they were taken away at gunpoint to death camps. gies was not intimidated. she sneaked back into the secret hideaway to try to preserve any belongings of the franks that hadn't been destroyed or taken. and there she found what would eventually become a treasure of the entire world. what is the purpose of this excerpt? to inform the audience of gies’s remarkable acts to persuade the audience to use gies as a role model to entertain the audience with gies’s heroic acts to teach the audience what a true hero really is

to inform the audience of Gies’s remarkable acts.

The purpose of the excerpt is to inform the reader of the remarkable acts of bravery of Gies. Although her main action (that of hiding the Franks) is well-known, the author wants to bring attention to her other actions, such as sneaking back to the hideaway and retrieving the diary. These actions show that she was a brave and special woman.

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".