High up above the open, welcoming door    It hangs, a piece of wood with colors dim.    Once, long ago, it was a wavering tree    And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves5   Of forest trees, in thick eastern wood.    The winter snows had bent its branches down,    The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers,    Summer had run like fire through its veins,    While autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs,10   And strewed the leafy ground with acorn cups.    Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among.    Its branches, breaking here and there a limb;    But every now and then broad sunlit days    Lovingly lingered, caught among the leaves.15   Yes, it had known all this, and yet to us    It does not speak of mossy forest ways,    Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch;    But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea!    An artist once, with patient, careful knife,20   Had fashioned it like to the untamed sea.    Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back    By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue,    And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light.    Among the flashing waves are white birds25   Which swoop, and soar, and scream for very joy    At the wild sport. Now diving quickly in,    Questing some glistening fish. Now flying up,    Their dripping feathers shining in the sun,    While the wet drops like little glints of light,30   Fall pattering backward to the parent sea.    Gliding along the green and foam-flecked hollows,    Or skimming some white crest about to break,    The spirits of the sky deigning to stoop    And play with ocean in a summer mood.35   Hanging above the high, wide open door,    It brings to us in quiet, firelit room,    The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes,    Where heaping, sunny waves tumble and roll,    And seabirds scream in wanton happiness.7Which statement provides the best objective summary of the poem? A. A person wishes that a beautiful wood-carving could tell of its former life in a mossy forest and the whispers of the trees. B. A person wonders whether the wood-carving remembers the many seasons the wood saw as part of the natural world. C. A person admires an intricate wood-carving and considers how it was once part of a tree before it became a work of art. D. A person considers how some seabirds and the ocean are depicted in a wood-carving that hangs over a room entryway.

The following text is Robert Frost’s 1921 poem “The Oft-Repeated Dream.”She had no saying dark enough     For the dark pine that keptForever trying the window-latch     Of the room where they sleptThe tireless but ineffectual hands     That with every futile passMade the great tree seem as a little bird     Before the mystery of glass!It never had been inside the room,     And only one of the twoWas afraid in an oft-repeated dream     Of what the tree might do.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?It establishes the setting as the bedroom of two children.eliminateIt conveys that the tree seems alive from the point of view of the girl in the poem.eliminateIt foreshadows imminent danger that will befall the two figures in the poem.eliminateIt demonstrates the differences in each child’s perception of the tree.

There is unrest in the forest,There is trouble with the trees,For the maples want more sunlightAnd the oaks ignore their pleas.The trouble with the maples,(And they're quite convinced they're right)They say the oaks are just too loftyAnd they grab up all the light.But the oaks can't help their feelingsIf they like the way they're made.And they wonder why the maplesCan't be happy in their shade.There was trouble in the forest,And the creatures all have fled,As the maples scream "Oppression!"And the oaks just shake their headsSo the maples formed a unionAnd demanded equal rights."The oaks are just too greedy;We will make them give us light."Now there's no more oak oppression,For they passed a noble law,And the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe, and saw.

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now":Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough,And stands about the woodland rideWearing white for Eastertide.Now, of my threescore years and ten,Twenty will not come again,And take from seventy springs a score,It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloomFifty springs are little room,About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.Which element in the poem best symbolizes a life that goes by too fast?A.WoodlandsB.SnowC.Cherry blossomsD.Eastertide

The tall tree swayed in the wind.*AttributivePredicativeAppositive

It was late in the afternoon, and the light was waning; there was a difference in the look of the tree shadows out in the yard. Somewhere in the distance cows were lowing, and a little bell was tinkling; now and then a farm wagon tilted by, and the dust flew; some blue-shirted laborers with shovels over their shoulders plodded past. There seemed to be a gentle stir arising over everything for the mere sake of subsidence—a premonition of rest and hush and night.     This soft commotion was over Louisa Ellis also. She had been peacefully sewing all the afternoon; now she quilted her needle carefully into her work, which she folded precisely and laid in a basket. Louisa could not remember that ever in her life she had mislaid one of these little feminine appurtenances, which had become, from use and constant association, a part of her personality.     Louisa tied a green apron around her waist, got out a flat straw hat with a green ribbon, and then she went into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. After the currants were picked, she sat on the back doorstep and stemmed them, collecting the stems carefully in her apron, and afterwards throwing them into the chicken coop; she looked sharply at the grass beside the step to see if any had fallen there.     Louisa was slow and still in her movements; it took her a long time to prepare her tea, but when ready it was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self. The little square table stood exactly in the center of the kitchen and was covered with a starched linen cloth whose border pattern of flowers glistened. Louisa used china every day—something which none of her neighbors did. They whispered about it among themselves because their daily tables were laid with common crockery, their sets of best china stayed in the parlor closet, and Louisa Ellis was no richer nor better bred than they, but still she would use the china.5Which detail from the passage best supports the idea that Louisa is industrious? A. She had been peacefully sewing all the afternoon B. Louisa was slow and still in her movements C. it took her a long time to prepare her tea D. she sat on the back doorstep and stemmed them