How does crossing the International Date Line affect the narrator in "Homesick"?
A. It causes her to feel hesitant.
B. It confuses her sense of time.
C. It gives her a sense of progress.
D. It causes her to feel relaxed.

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The following passage appears in an online article.

Paraphrase the information for your research report about DNA.

Scientists believe that someday farmers will grow plants with black leaves. These leaves would be able to change sunlight into energy. F. Dyson, a genetics expert, claims, "This would help reduce poverty in rural parts of the world because farmers could grow black plants and sell them at a healthy profit." He also sees a day when termites will eat rusty metal and trees will produce liquid fuel. "The secret lies in DNA," says Dyson.

F. Dyson is a genetics expert who claims that DNA holds the secret to great advancements that could help humanity, such as growing plants that transform sunlight into energy, trees that produce liquid fuel, and breading termites that eat rusty metal.

Explanation:

Paraphrase is a way of repeating something with a different sentence, clearer and shorter than the original one. n this example, it might seem at first as if plants with black leaves are the main topic. It takes further reading to understand that the main point is DNA.