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Each of these excerpts is from a different introduction. Which excerpt establishes a claim?

Think about the last time you had to take a standardized test. Many students take several standardized tests throughout their school careers.

Do you think your education is as good as the education of students in other countries? Recent statistics show that several countries are falling behind.

You may have heard about recent cuts in arts education funding. Yet the arts are crucial to helping develop problem-solving, innovation, and creativity.

Do you know anyone who has cheated on an exam? A recent poll showed that most students know someone who has cheated or have cheated themselves.

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Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Select 3 options.

amusing

cunning

mischievous

naive

stupid

vicious

Which excerpt from Tom Sawyer allows the reader to infer the time of year?

She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and “jimpson” weeds that constituted the garden.

“It’s mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child.”

While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments.

Which excerpt from "How Should One Read a Book?” best states the author’s purpose?

Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices.

But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other.

Thus to go from one great novelist to another—from Jane Austen to Hardy, from Peacock to Trollope, from Scott to Meredith—is to be wrenched and uprooted; to be thrown this way and then that.

But a glance at the heterogeneous company on the shelf will show you that writers are very seldom “great artists”; far more often a book makes no claim to be a work of art at all.

compassionleadership skillspatiencephysical stamina

compassion

leadership skills

patience

physical stamina

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