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Mataputih Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

The chicken or the egg

0All dragonflies go through the same life cycle. The adult dragonfly lays its eggs directly onto aquatic plants or into the water. The dragonfly 01b00begins life02b00 as a nymph living underwater,eating other aquatic creatures. This nymphal stage can last for as long as four years for some species. When the nymph is completely grown and ready to become a dragonfly it will crawl up the stem of a water plant and emerge out of the water. The adult emerges from the skin of the nymph. Dragon flies mate in flight. When dragonflies have successfully mated, the female will look for a suitable pond where she will lay her eggs and 01b00the cycle begins again02b00.02br
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01b00From the text02b00, the order of the stages in the cycle of a dragonfly is as follows.02br
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00A. adult, egg, nymph02br
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00B. nymph, adult, egg02br
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00C. egg, nymph, adult02br
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00D. egg, adult, nymph02br
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00A cycle should not have a beginning or an end but 01b00from the text02b00, I would pick01b00 B.02b02br
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00The given answer is 01b00A02b00.0-
  

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0 As you said, a cycle has no end(s), so the correct annwers are:02br
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00 A (as in the text, the cycle's description starts from the adult phase), B, C02br
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00 Only D is incorrect.02br
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00 One may argue that it'd be good style to depict the cycle from birth to death, in which case C would be the choice...02br
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