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Which statement best exemplifies a strong persuasive claim?

A
Teachers often communicate with families via newsletters and e-mails.
B
Parents of school-age children appreciate information from schools.
C
Offices are trying to reduce paper usage through reuse and recycling efforts.
D
School communications should be sent electronically to conserve paper.
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Which sentence best uses a split infinitive to clearly emphasize the message of safe driving?

A
Before getting behind the wheel, young drivers must remember not to text.
B
Young drivers must remember to narrow their focus fully when they get behind the wheel.
C
Young drivers must remember to always turn off cell phones before getting behind the wheel.
D
When driving a car, young drivers need to most importantly remember to completely ignore their phones.
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Which genre would most likely be used to educate a large group of people?

A
plays
B
poems
C
novels
D
lectures
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Which excerpt from A Princess of Mars most supports the conclusion that the narrator is reckless?

A
It therefore now occurred to me that the surest way of learning the exact attitude of this beast toward me would be to attempt to leave the room.
B
Furthermore, I could see from the shortness of his legs that the brute himself was no jumper and probably no runner.
C
Evidently his mission was to protect me only, I thought, but when we reached the edge of the city he suddenly sprang before me, uttering strange sounds and baring his ugly and ferocious tusks.
D
As I was to learn, this is the fleetest animal on Mars, and owing to its intelligence, loyalty, and ferocity is used in hunting, in war, and as the protector of the Martian man.
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Read the passage from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day.Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. Ere you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. Do not despair. Continue. Keep it up.Which revision uses signal words to clarify the sequence of events for readers?

A
Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. Ere you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. First, do not despair. Then, continue. Finally, keep it up.
B
The procedure is to bring it back by the scruff of the neck. In fact, ere you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. Do not despair. Continue. Keep it up.
C
The process is to bring it back by the scruff of the neck. Ere you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. That’s right, do not despair. Continue. Keep it up.
D
Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. The truth is that once you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. The plan is to not despair. Continue. Keep it up.
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Read the passage from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day.Hence, it seems to me, the first business of the day should be to put the mind through its paces. You look after your body, inside and out; you run grave danger in hacking hairs off your skin; you employ a whole army of individuals, from the milkman to the pig-killer, to enable you to bribe your stomach into decent behaviour. Why not devote a little attention to the far more delicate machinery of the mind, especially as you will require no extraneous aid? It is for this portion of the art and craft of living that I have reserved the time from the moment of quitting your door to the moment of arriving at your office.

A
devote less time to worrying about what to eat.
B
resist working too much in favor of taking up the arts.
C
avoid endangering themselves just so they can look better.
D
spend as much time developing the mind as developing the body.
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Read the chapter title from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day.CONTROLLING THE MINDThe author includes the title as a way to

A
show how the chapter is organized.
B
sum up the subject of the chapter.
C
show why the chapter is entertaining.
D
provide evidence for the chapter.
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Read the excerpt from Sudanese Slit Drum.This thinning would materially change the sound of the drum, evidence that although it might continue to be used for its original purpose of music-making or calling people to arms, it would now do so with a different voice. A musical instrument had become a trophy, and the new carvings were in fact branding, a statement of the north’s political dominance over Central Africa and of allegiance to Islam.

A
the musical history of the drum.
B
the religious history of the drum.
C
the cultural significance of the drum.
D
the general usefulness of the drum.
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One advantage of reading Sudanese Slit Drum, rather than listening to it in a podcast, is that the reader

A
sets the pace.
B
pauses for effect.
C
adds sound effects.
D
emphasizes key words.
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Read the passage from A Princess of Mars.While Sola was away I took occasion to examine more minutely the room in which I found myself captive. The mural painting depicted scenes of rare and wonderful beauty; mountains, rivers, lake, ocean, meadow, trees and flowers, winding roadways, sun-kissed gardens—scenes which might have portrayed earthly views but for the different colorings of the vegetation. The work had evidently been wrought by a master hand, so subtle the atmosphere, so perfect the technique; yet nowhere was there a representation of a living animal, either human or brute, by which I could guess at the likeness of these other and perhaps extinct denizens of Mars.

A
is told by a narrator.
B
features a prisoner.
C
analyzes a piece of art.
D
is set on another planet.

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