Nature and the Environment - English 9A

Read this poem. Feet pound pavement as miles pass, Steady as tides, they approach their shore, Training is tested, strength is stretched— Buoyed by the pack, one mile more. Sweat streaks, muscles tense, eager for the end, Final flags beckon, the crowd grows loud. Tested vessels reach their harbor— Runners hearts beat proud. Which statements describe the poem? Check all that apply.

The poem has an ABCB rhyme scheme. Each stanza is a quatrain. The poem contains two stanzas.

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. Which best describes how this excerpt appeals to readers' emotions?

The sentence discusses the death of children.

Which excerpt from John Muir's "Save the Redwoods" best appeals to readers' logic?

These kings of the forest, the noblest of a noble race, rightly belong to the world, but as they are in California we cannot escape responsibility as their guardians. Fortunately the American people are equal to this trust . . . as soon as they see it and understand it.

Read the poem. Snowflakes cascade My yard is changed. A backyard reality is rearranged. Neglected bikes wear blankets of snow, Hopscotch lines cower and hide, The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring. How many lines does each stanza contain?

3

Read the poem. Instruments poised, chins high Not a blink, nor a sigh As every eye awaits her hand To cue the members of the band.

AABB

Read the lines from "Sea Fever" by John Masefield. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; Which statement best describes the use of sound devices in the lines?

Both lines use alliteration as a sound device.

Read the paragraph from The Hot Zone. There was not a uniform in the group, although a few members of the ambulance team wore camouflage fatigues. The caravan crossed the Potomac River at Point of Rocks and hit Leesburg Pike just as rush hour began. The traffic became bumper to bumper, and the officers began to get frustrated. It took them two hours to reach the monkey house, contending the whole way with ill-tempered commuters. Finally the column turned into the office park, which by that time was filling up with workers. The supply van and the ambulance were driven along the side of the monkey house, up onto a lawn, and were parked behind the building, to get them out of sight. The back of the building presented a brick face, some narrow windows, and a glass door. The door was the insertion point. They parked the supply van up close to the door. Which statement best summarizes the central idea of this paragraph?

Great care was taken to keep the truth from the news.

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. Nancy took a breath and gathered her thoughts. She imagined that passing through the gray-zone door into Level 4 was like a space walk, except that instead of going into outer space, you went into inner space, which was full of the pressure of life trying to get inside your suit. People went into Level 4 areas all the time at the Institute, particularly the civilian animal caretakers. But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different. This was high-hazard work. The central idea of this excerpt is that working in a containment zone is very dangerous. Which phrases from the excerpt most support the central idea?

amplified unknown hot agent; high-hazard work

Read the excerpt from "Save the Redwoods." Now some millmen want to cut all the Calaveras trees into lumber and money. But we have found a better use for them. No doubt these trees would make good lumber after passing through a sawmill, as George Washington after passing through the hands of a French cook would have made good food. But both for Washington and the tree that bears his name higher uses have been found. In this excerpt, Muir compares a Calaveras tree to George Washington. The purpose of this comparison is to appeal to readers'

logos and pathos.

Use the passages Silent Spring and "Save the Redwoods" to answer the following question. Considering the authors' use of appeals in their passages, which paragraph most appeals to logos?

paragraph 4 of "Save the Redwoods"

Jargon consists of words that are specific to a

subject or profession.

Read the paragraph from The Hot Zone. At six-thirty, he gave an order to move out, and the column of vehicles left Fort Detrick's main gate and headed south, toward the Potomac River. It consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers' family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. One was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. It was an unmarked Level 4 biocontainment ambulance. Inside it there were an Army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. If someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the Slammer. The supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood. What is the author's purpose for including this paragraph?

to help the reader visualize the thorough precautions that were in place