from settled in the wild it is a rainy morning, the first week of may, good weather to plant nasturtiums. i sit on the porch steps with rubber boots on, a baseball cap, and a paper - sack, holding the packages of seeds i bought at the feed store in town yesterday. the rain is steady and cold, the light is steel gray, and the yard is gray and wet. but the pictures on the packages vibrate with color. nothing is as good as these nasturtium flowers right now: deep red, eye - jolting orange, electric yellow. absentmindedly, i begin to recite william wordsworths \i wandered lonely as a cloud\ to myself. i have known the poem by heart ever since my mother taught it to me when i was a child: for oft, when on my couch i lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils. wordsworths inner eye saw daffodils. i say the poem and see hummingbirds. the nasturtiums are for them, and planting the flowers is my act of faith that they will come back to my yard once more. as i rip open the packages and push the seeds into the dirt, i know that these tiny colored nectar - drinking birds, each of whom weighs only a few grams—the weight of four or five of these seeds—have already whirred in erratic flight across five hundred miles of open water, running the gulf of mexico in a six - hour heat. scientists do exactly what physiologists once insisted they could not do. a hummingbird weighs so little, they argued, cannot go from the yucatán to the united states. this question has two parts. answer part a, and then answer part b. part a how does the phrase hey are my daffodils, these birds\ in paragraph 15 best help develop the ideas in the passage? 1. the phrase illustrates that many different aspects of nature are fascinating to the author. 2. the phrase compares the flowers to the birds, as they both signal a change of season to the author. 3. the phrase shows how the author has made the wordsworth poem a meaningful part of daily life. 4. the phrase indicates that the birds are a source of joy for the author, as the flowers were for wordsworth. part b which excerpt from the passage best supports the correct answer from part a? 1. \i have known the poem by heart ever since

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from settled in the wild it is a rainy morning, the first week of may, good weather to plant nasturtiums. i sit on the porch steps with rubber boots on, a baseball cap, and a paper - sack, holding the packages of seeds i bought at the feed store in town yesterday. the rain is steady and cold, the light is steel gray, and the yard is gray and wet. but the pictures on the packages vibrate with color. nothing is as good as these nasturtium flowers right now: deep red, eye - jolting orange, electric yellow. absentmindedly, i begin to recite william wordsworths \i wandered lonely as a cloud\ to myself. i have known the poem by heart ever since my mother taught it to me when i was a child: for oft, when on my couch i lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils. wordsworths inner eye saw daffodils. i say the poem and see hummingbirds. the nasturtiums are for them, and planting the flowers is my act of faith that they will come back to my yard once more. as i rip open the packages and push the seeds into the dirt, i know that these tiny colored nectar - drinking birds, each of whom weighs only a few grams—the weight of four or five of these seeds—have already whirred in erratic flight across five hundred miles of open water, running the gulf of mexico in a six - hour heat. scientists do exactly what physiologists once insisted they could not do. a hummingbird weighs so little, they argued, cannot go from the yucatán to the united states. this question has two parts. answer part a, and then answer part b. part a how does the phrase 	hey are my daffodils, these birds\ in paragraph 15 best help develop the ideas in the passage? 1. the phrase illustrates that many different aspects of nature are fascinating to the author. 2. the phrase compares the flowers to the birds, as they both signal a change of season to the author. 3. the phrase shows how the author has made the wordsworth poem a meaningful part of daily life. 4. the phrase indicates that the birds are a source of joy for the author, as the flowers were for wordsworth. part b which excerpt from the passage best supports the correct answer from part a? 1. \i have known the poem by heart ever since

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# Brief Explanations:
In Part A, the phrase "They are my daffodils, these birds" shows the author's connection of birds to the joy - inspiring daffodils in Wordsworth's poem, indicating the birds are a source of joy like the flowers were for Wordsworth. For Part B, the idea that the birds are a source of joy is best supported by the overall context of the author's musings on nature and the poem, but among the given options, the connection to the joy - filled poem is relevant.
# Answer:
Part A: 4. The phrase indicates that the birds are a source of joy for the author, as the flowers were for Wordsworth.
Part B: No options provided to choose from for a full answer.

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