Question

Many communities celebrate holidays with parades (2) They are a great way to entertain the people who watch from the

sidelines (3) Some of the parades involve large numbers of people and are put together at great expense (4) The Macy's Day
Parade is held in New York City (5) People from all parts of the country watch it on TV (6) Other parades are spontaneous affairs in
small towns (7) In the US, there are parades for all sorts of holidays (8) High school students decorate floats for their
Homecoming Days
Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" It is the name of a popular festival in New Orleans New Orleans' Mardi Gras tradition
goes back to celebrations by masked student revelers around 1827 Many parades, including Mardi Gras feature floats, which are
moving cars or large displays decorated with fresh flowers or crepe paper by local groups and schools
Choose the sentence that best connects the two paragraphs
A. Earlier, many of the towns celebrated holidays by exchanging gifts
B. In addition, we have parades that celebrate cultural events like Mardi Gras
C.
At last we have parades that celebrate cultural events like Mardi Gras
D
To illustrate, we have parades that celebrate cultural events like Mardi Gras


Please help hurry

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

I say D because B and C are both wrong as they are closing the paragraph. We are left with A and D and A is just talking about exchanging gifts. It doesn't really talk about what the second paragraph is about. I hope this helped:)