Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Whether or not a woman was promoted, if she was given a raise, if she had access to the smoky sessions where the future was being conceived and built, had much to do with the prejudices and predilections of the men she worked for.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Crime has increased so that we are told one of every three Americans is afraid to walk in his own neighborhood after dark.
Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. English is now the second language of at least one-sixth of the nation’s restaurant workers, and about one-third of that group speaks no English at all. The proportion of fast food workers who cannot speak English is even higher.Which type of evidence does the author use in this excerpt?
Which of the following excerpts from Fast Food Nation best provides evidence that fast food restaurants are designed for using unskilled labor?
Read the passage.Along with zebras, horses and donkeys are members of the Equus genus. Donkeys, however, tend to be smaller than horses and zebras, although a donkey is stronger than a horse of the same size. They make great packing animals and can handle tougher terrain than horses. Donkeys also need less care. Their hooves do not need to be shoed, and they require a less-delicate diet, making them superior work animals in many instances.
Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Death by Black Hole.”If you stumbled upon a black hole and found yourself falling feet-first toward its center, then as you got closer, the black hole’s force of gravity would grow astronomically. Curiously, you would not feel this force at all because, like anything in free fall, you are weightless. What you do feel, however, is something far more sinister. While you fall, the black hole’s force of gravity at your two feet, they being closer to the black hole’s center, accelerates them faster than does the weaker force of gravity at your head. Read the excerpt from Billy Collins’s “Man Listening to Disc.”the only true point of view,is full of the hope that he,the hub of the cosmoswith his hair blown sideways,will eventually make it all the way downtown.Which choice best describes the differing views Tyson and Collins present of humanity?
Read the passage.Oil stains can be the most stubborn to remove from clothing. It is important to get the stain out, though, as remnants of the grease or oil could actually start a fire when the clothing is put in the dryer. The first thing to do is to put a few drops of dish soap on the stain. Dish soap is made to cut through grease. Next, rub in the soap with your fingers, a clean cloth, or a sponge. Let the soap sit on the stain for at least five minutes. You can then wash it as you normally would, in hot water with detergent. It is best to air-dry the clothing to make sure that the stain did, in fact, come out.
Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.Today the air is so soupy that it feels like I am living inside someone else’s mouth. I wake up at the sound of the first adhan, the muezzin’s voice echoing through my room. But I do not get up to pray. Instead I roll over and press my face into my pillow and pray for cool air and sleep.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers
Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" includes an example of an allusion?
Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Men gave the orders and women took notes. Unless an engineer was given a compelling reason to evaluate a woman as a peer, she remained in his blind spot, her usefulness measured against the limited task at hand, any additional talents undiscovered.Read Cameron’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Women completed the tasks assigned to them. Unless an engineer was forced to consider a woman his peer, he never paid attention to her. Men were only concerned with completing the tasks that were right in front of them.
Which text structure should be used to show the order of events?
Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. Up and down Academy Boulevard, along South Nevada, Circle Drive, and Woodman Road, teenagers like Elisa run the fast food restaurants of Colorado Springs. Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Malone, a film in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults. No other industry in the United States has a workforce so dominated by adolescents.How does Schlosser effectively build his argument in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.By the measure of the rest of the country, she was an insider’s insider. She enjoyed a front-row seat at a spectacle that the rest of the citizenry learned about in the daily newspaper and on the nightly news. But however close she sat to the room where the meetings took place, she was still an outsider if she couldn't get in the door.
Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Katherine listened carefully to everything the engineers said, strained for snippets of conversation, and devoured Aviation Week like a kid reading the funny papers. The real action, she knew, was taking place there in the lectures and editorial meetings, those closed-door sessions where engineers subjected preliminary research reports to the same relentless scrutiny and stress testing that they applied to the aircraft they engineered.
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