What is the central idea of paragraphs 1–3?ResponsesThe author and her family live in a city with many healthy green trees that provide shade.The author and her family live in a city with many healthy green trees that provide shade.The author found out that the city has a Parks & Recreation Department that takes care of trees.The author found out that the city has a Parks & Recreation Department that takes care of trees.The author and her brother grew concerned about a neighborhood tree that appeared to be dying.The author and her brother grew concerned about a neighborhood tree that appeared to be dying.The author decided that she wanted to become involved in the Neighborhood Tree Inventory Project.

Select the correct answer.Which of the following statements best summarizes the passage? A. Some experts focus on the effect of green environments on surrounding communities. B. Research confirms that nature has many benefits for individuals and communities. C. It is difficult for people who live in urban areas to find opportunities to be in nature. D. Being outdoors can increase motivation and life expectancy and reduce disease.

Question 4Topic sentences guide the structure of individual body paragraphs by telling the main idea of a paragraph and supporting details provide further information about that main idea.1 pointTrueFalse

ultiple Choice: What is the main idea of paragraphs 1-4?In Poetics, Greek polymath Aristotle argues that reading literature is the only way to improve one's intellectual prowess.While few people realize the benefits of reading, researchers today have found that literary inventions can help us navigate life's challenges.Researchers from the Chicago School have created Project Narrative to retell stories from Aristotle's time, and to explore the power of ancient literature.In Poetics, Aristotle proposed that literature is an invention that improves human life, and researchers today are working to prove that this theory is true.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail builds on the themes that a person's environment can shape his or her view of life and that people can bear difficult circumstances for a long time?adapted from Life in the Iron Millsby Rebecca Harding Davis     A cloudy day—do you know what that is in a town of iron works? The sky sank down before dawn—muddy, flat, and immovable; the air is thick—clammy with the breath of crowded human beings, and it stifles me. I open the front window and can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, and I can detect the scent through all the foul smells ranging loose in the air.     The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke as it rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron foundries and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passerby—smoke everywhere! A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me; its dream of green fields and sunshine is a very old dream—almost worn out, I think.     From the back window, I can see a narrow brickyard sloping down to the riverside, where the river—dull and tawny-colored—drags itself sluggishly along, tired of the heavy weight of boats and barges. When I was a child, I used to fancy a look of weary, dumb appeal upon the face of the river, bearing its burden day after day. Something of the same idle notion comes to me today, when I look on the slow stream of human life creeping past, night and morning, to the great mills. Masses of men with dull, besotted faces bent to the ground, sharpened here and there by pain or cunning; skin and muscle and flesh begrimed with smoke and ashes; stooping all night over boiling cauldrons of metal; breathing from infancy to death an air saturated with grease and soot—vileness for soul and body. What do you make of a case like that, amateur psychologist? You call it an altogether serious thing to be alive: to these men it is a jest, a joke—horrible to angels perhaps, but to them commonplace enough.

elect the correct answer.How do paragraphs 15 and 16 refine the idea that green initiatives have a positive impact on densely populated areas? A. By presenting both sides of how individuals feel about greening areas B. By referencing a specific neighborhood that has recently improved C. By citing research that shows positive changes in attitude and emotions D. By describing the ways people interact with one another outdoors