Groundhog Day
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Groundhog Day
Although she thought she wanted the lights and excitement of the city when
she departed for college, (1) the Washington, D.C. area quickly reinforced her seemingly
innate need for the soothing green expanse of the countryside of her youth. (2) For example,
my mother, always one to roll with the punches, quickly adapted. (3)Her spare time
was dedicated to the cultivation of the two tiny raised garden beds in our backyard.
(4) She began the process of preparing the soil, germinating seedlings in makeshift
greenhouses on our windowsills, and carefully planning a three season rotation
of crops that would offer up fresh herbs and vegetables. (5) My mother's
upbringing in the pastoral valleys and highlands of the Virginia Piedmont had not
prepared her for the tiny yards, carefully delineated with privacy fences, or the
perfectly duplicated homes crammed onto our cul-de-sac.
My father purchased a live trap at the local hardware store and (6) in regards to
several tries with a variety of bait, apple slices did the trick. Much to our surprise,
a juvenile groundhog sat quietly in our trap. Despite his recent buffet dinners in our
garden, he was seriously underweight and covered in ticks. (7) We all gathered <
u>round to inspect the little fellow. My brother and I wanted to keep him, but
my mother told us he wasn’t a pet. “He’s a wild animal who has been forced to adapt to life in the city,” she said. (8)
(9) So once she discovered that the lower leaves of her climbing green bean had
been nibbled. She had carefully run stringers from the edge of the garden box diagonally
up to the top of the fence, and (10) the climbing beans had been maturing nicely.
Then one afternoon, she came home from work to discover that the strings had been
chewed and torn, and that the beans had been decimated. (11) However, each
evening, she noticed that more of the lower leaves were disappearing. She
had learned to wrap the tomato plants in netting to keep out squirrels and to use
low fencing to discourage local rabbits. (12) This was something new.
(13) He seemed lost and hesitated for a few minutes when we opened the trap door.
(14) I hope he finally found his home. But then he perked his head and twitched
his nose, picking up some scent that drew his attention, and he scurried off through
the underbrush. (15)
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Which of the following sequencing of the paragraphs makes this essay the most logical?
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As they are written
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1,4,2,3
C
1,3,2,4
D
2,3,1,4
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