![]() ![]() Funerals began to appear in the streets, though it was the middle of summer, a time when all should be tending and harvesting. The population, working now steadily for endless months upon the changing of the walls, resembled Death himself, clattering his white bones like musical instruments in the wind. Sickness spread in the city like a pack of evil dogs. "Mercy," wept the messenger the following morn, "they have worked all night and shaped their walls like lightning which will explode and destroy that sheath!" "Then shift the stones to form a scabbard to sheathe that sword!" The Emperor held, trembling, to the silken screen. "They make their walls like a sword to break your needle!" "Then," said the Emperor, standing very close to his silken screen, "build our walls like a needle to sew up that mouth!" "Oh, Emperor," cried the messenger, "Kwan-Si has rebuilt their walls to resemble a mouth with which to drink all our lake!" ![]() Then, answer each question that follows.īackground: Leaders of two neighboring towns have directed workers to rebuild their city walls in competing shapes. Read the excerpt from "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind, " short story by Ray Bradbury. A playmate may cut his leg or foot with a scythe or knife, or fall and h a v e b r o k e n ‾ \underline ma y b e suffocated by coal gas. ![]() Emergencies and accidents are a frequent occurrence. Some revisions are not of actual mistakes, hut will improve the clarity of the writing. The questions will require you to make decisions regarding the revision of the reading selection. Read the following passage and then choose the best revision for the underlined portions of the paragraph. ![]()
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