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Option A: The sentence opens passage with a powerful and dramatic fact that arrests the reader's attention
Explanation:
Opening the passage with such a powerful description of a fact and personifying wildfires is dramatic which arrests the reader's attention leading him/her to read and know more about the facts.
Option B and D are totally incorrect as there is no mention of drones in this sentence.
Option C is also incorrect because the writer has not asked a rhetoric question from the reader. The writer has just described a fact.
C) short e because a (long e) would make a true (e) sound.
Answer:
1. He's tall, isn't he?
2. They're not coming soon, are they?
3. She does basketball, doesn't she?
4. We weren't at the party yesterday, we're we?
5. You can drive, can't you?
6. She did a lot of work, didn't she?
7. They must keep the kitchen clean, musn't they? ( This one's kind of hard sorry if it's not correct, but I believe it is)
8. You'll come to my recital, won't you?
9. We won't be excepted to help, will we?
10. They've started on their homework, haven't they?
11. He could just walk to school in the morning, couldn't he?
12. She wouldn't steal anything from the store, would she?
Answer: Kennedy uses facts to compare U.S. economic growth with other industrialized nations, which show the U.S. is lagging; Nixon uses facts to compare the economic growth during this presidency to that during the previous one, which shows that the economy is improving.
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