Please help me it’s due in 20 minutes..Reading Skills Identifying Main Ideas For each passage, choose the
letter that corresponds to the main idea sentence.
15. (A) Sumerians believed that their gods had
enormous powers. (B) Gods could bring a good
harvest or a disastrous flood. (C) They could
bring illness or they could bring good health
and wealth.
16. (A) The wheel was not the Sumerians' only
great development. (B) They developed cunei-
form, the world's first system of writing. (C)
But Sumerians did not have pencils, pens, or
paper. (D) Instead, they used sharp reeds to
make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.

Not all members of the radio audience of orson welles' war of the worlds broadcast panicked immediately. indeed, some didn't panic until they looked out of the window and saw empty streets; others didn't panic until they saw streets full of traffic. it was after checking out the situation that these citizens decided that the martians had indeed invaded earth. this example illustrates that contagion can result when people look to others for the interpretation of ambiguous situations . can result when cultural norms reinforce people's most likely responses. occurs primarily because humans are by nature irrational creatures. is especially likely when people are motivated to make independent decisions.