The correct answer is A. Seamus liked doing almost any physical activity: hiking, surfing, biking, running, and even spelunking.
Explanation:
In grammar, a parallel structure in one in which there is a repetition of a grammatical structure, this usually implies a list of elements are presented using the same structure and related to the rest of the sentence in the same way which creates a parallel relation between all the elements presented.
In the case of presented, a parallel structure implies all the elements of the list which are sport or activities are presented by using the same grammatical structure which can be done by presenting all the elements using gerunds (verbs ended in -ing) or an infinitive (preposition "to" followed by the verb). Considering this, the only option which follows a parallel structure is "Seamus liked doing almost any physical activity: hiking, surfing, biking, running, and even spelunking" because all the elements after the colon (:) are presented using gerund grammatical structure which creates a parallel relationship between all the elements.
Answer:
The poisoning of the world's land, air, and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilization. It is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth. If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.
Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be caused by the greenhouse effect. The seas are in danger. They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following. The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction'. If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.
Air poluttion is a very serious problem. In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening - equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. The same holds true for Mexico City. Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substances. These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet. They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains.
An even greater environmental threat is nuclear power stations. People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's. They join and support various international organizations and green parties.
Answer and Explanation:
1. The simile compares love being pierced in the chest with. birth of a child. This is because, just like the birth of a child, love arrives unexpectedly, it causes pain and happiness at the same time and presents itself as a new experience, which will be developed little by little and in the mold that the couple determines.
2. It says that love is something very deep, unexpected, challenging, but pleasurable, that makes people strive to be something good in the future, something that will bring pride and happiness to the two people responsible for it.
The answer is 10 inches. The conversion of yards to inches is, 1 yd=36 in; therefore, you multiply 36 by 3 you get 108. 108 in minus 98 in equals 10 in.
The answer to the question above is "a) team" which is the identified collective noun from the sentence above based on the nature of the collective noun. A collective noun contains a group of individuals in its meaning, thus it called collective. The "team" word contains every team members on its meaning.
