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was no pollination and there would be no fruit. The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, Which words and phrases from the excerpt best support the author's deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the environment? Choose Anglers no longer visited them, for all the fish had died. three correct answers. In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and tragedy streams. No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. stark reality This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world. I know of no community that has experienced all the misfortunes I describe. Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of grim specter them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. almost unnoticed From Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Copyright @ 1962 by Rachel L. Carson, Copyright @ renewed 1990 by Roger Christie. Reprinted by permission of Frances Collin, Trustee. All copying, including Dictionary electronic, or re-distribution of this text is expressly forbidden. actually