Which changes should be made to improve this summary of the paragraph’s central idea? Select two options.
Which questions would most help a reader identify the author’s purpose for writing? Select three options. What type of text is this?What type of reviews did the book receive?How many copies of the book have been sold?What is the central idea?How does this text make one feel?
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.Jerry was terribly keyed up. In the past he had lectured Nancy on the dangers of working with Ebola in a space suit, and now he was leading a team into an Ebola hell. At the moment, he didn't care what happened to himself, personally. He was expendable, and he knew it.
Which phrases are examples of jargon? Select three options.
Read the sentence from a summary about The Hot Zone.The text brilliantly illustrates the risks involved in dealing with a Level 4 agent and describes in fascinating detail the painstaking process of preparing to enter “the hot zone.”
Read the sentence from a summary about The Hot Zone.Richard Preston’s book The Hot Zone details the steps soldiers and scientists took to identify the deadly Ebola virus found in monkeys near Washington, D.C.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone and the summary that follows it.Half of this biocontainment operation was going to be news containment. C. J. Peters's comments to The Washington Post were designed to create an impression that the situation was under control, safe, and not all that interesting. C. J. was understating the gravity of the situation. But he could be very smooth when he wanted, and he used his friendliest voice with the reporters, assuring them over the telephone that there really was no problem, just kind of a routine technical situation. Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been "destroyed as a precaution" when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn't been destroyed.Summary of central idea: It was very important to keep the truth about this operation from the news.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. The spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. She did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. She had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself.
Which strategies are most effective to help a reader determine the meaning of an unknown word? Select three options.Check for nearby synonyms that may provide a clue to the word’s meaning.Determine if the author could have used a more appropriate word instead.Check surrounding words to see what events are leading up to this word.Ask people nearby if they happen to know the meaning of the unknown word.Substitute the unfamiliar word with a familiar word to see if it makes sense.
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive.
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