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According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what happens in Puerto Rico immediately after Clemente’s death is confirmed?

A
Roberto Clemente is inducted into the Hall of Fame.
B
Earthquake supplies are sent to Nicaragua.
C
A state of mourning envelops the country.
D
A stadium is renamed in Clemente’s honor.
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According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," which event takes place months before the author attends a party on New Year’s Eve 1972?

A
Roberto Clemente hits his 3,000th hit.
B
Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash.
C
Orlando Cepeda is named Most Valuable Player.
D
Orlando Cepeda is inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what leads to Clemente’s passion for community service?

A
Clemente experiences racial discrimination in America.
B
Clemente attends youth clinics in Puerto Rico.
C
Clemente witnesses the need for earthquake relief.
D
Clemente visits American cities as he travels with his team.
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According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what happens after Clemente’s sports city is established?

A
It serves as a model for sports complexes world wide.
B
It promotes achievement among Puerto Rican baseball players.
C
It expands and offers arts and entertainment classes for youth.
D
It becomes a tourist destination for travelers visiting Puerto Rico.
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Read this excerpt from Helen Keller’s autobiography The Story of My Life.One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words "m-u-g" and "w-a-t-e-r." Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that "m-u-g" is mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst. I had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness. I felt my teacher sweep the fragments to one side of the hearth, and I had a sense of satisfaction that the cause of my discomfort was removed. . . .We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Some one was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten – a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away.What happens after the narrator touches the well water?

A
She learns how to form letters with her fingers.
B
She breaks her doll to express her frustration with learning.
C
She enjoys the smell of honeysuckle at the well house.
D
She recognizes the connection between objects and words.
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Read this excerpt from Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life.Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. . . .The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk.Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Helen Keller?

A
lonely and timid
B
curious and eager
C
gentle and mild-mannered
D
levelheaded and reasonable
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Read this excerpt from Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life.As soon as I could spell a few words my teacher gave me slips of cardboard on which were printed words in raised letters. I quickly learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality. I had a frame in which I could arrange the words in little sentences; but before I ever put sentences in the frame I used to make them in objects. I found the slips of paper which represented, for example, "doll," "is," "on," "bed" and placed each name on its object; then I put my doll on the bed with the words is, on, bed arranged beside the doll, thus making a sentence of the words, and at the same time carrying out the idea of the sentence with the things themselves.One day, Miss Sullivan tells me, I pinned the word girl on my pinafore and stood in the wardrobe. On the shelf I arranged the words, is, in, wardrobe. Nothing delighted me so much as this game. My teacher and I played it for hours at a time. Often everything in the room was arranged in object sentences.From the printed slip it was but a step to the printed book. I took my "Reader for Beginners" and hunted for the words I knew; when I found them my joy was like that of a game of hide-and-seek. Thus I began to read. Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall speak later. What happens before the narrator forms sentences in her room?

A
She learns how to read individual words with raised letters.
B
She plays a trick on her teacher by hiding in her closet.
C
She is given a beginning reader book and reads stories.
D
She resists learning and insists on playing with dolls.

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