Janice was a special rescue dog who helped people in distress. She knew how to help the blind, how to find missing people, and how to swim in rough waters to save people. One day, as Janice sat with her trainer by the lake, she spotted something in the water. Human hands were waving for help in the distance.

Q. Based on the details in the story, the reader can predict that

excerpt from The Art of Happiness

by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler

"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness. . . ."

With these words, spoken before a large audience in Arizona, the Dalai Lama cut to the heart of his message. But his claim that the purpose of life was happiness raised a question in my mind. Later when we were alone, I asked the Dalai Lama. . . ."

Q. Based on the above passage, what might the narrator ask the Dalai Lama next?

“Meg knelt at her mother’s feet. The warmth and light of the kitchen had relaxed her so that her attic fears were gone. The cocoa steamed fragrantly in the saucepan; geraniums bloomed on the window sills and there was a bouquet of tiny yellow chrysanthemums in the center of the table. The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room. The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance…” (16)

Which words create the mood?

“They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun’s touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are just beginning to unfold.” (67)

Which words create the mood?

“Mrs. Whatsit continued to climb, her wings straining a little. Meg felt her heart racing; cold sweat began to gather on her face and her lips felt as though they were turning blue. She began to gasp."

Which words create the mood?

“Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle? There was still the sound of leaves, a terrified, terrifying rushing. All light was gone. Darkness was complete. Suddenly the wind was gone, and all sound. Meg felt that Calvin was being torn from her. When she reached for him her fingers touched nothing.”

Which words create the mood?

a plea made by a person accused of a crime; to offer an excuse

To restore to a former status

something given or exacted in payment for an offense

to attain awareness or understanding of

No blatant or agreessive

tending to give one outcome more frequently than others

boat with sails, carries supplies

huge, big, large

tight grasp, tighten up

observing, watching

dangerous

tremble or shake

changes oil to gas

island