Question 27 • ALT ENG 11 S2 Common Core ELA 11 2014 - ELA3011 B-CR
Read the excerpt from "How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About."Because most cities would no longer exist, messages would have to be broken up into pieces, scattered throughout the system, moved around cities that no longer existed, and then reassembled at the destination. ARPA combined these ideas with an existing system to create what is now called e-mail.Which reading strategy would most help in comprehending the sentence?
Answer
A
breaking it up into shorter sentences and phrases
B
looking up the longer words
C
relating the content to personal experience
D
rereading the sentence aloud
Explanation
The sentence is long and describes several steps: messages are broken into pieces, scattered, moved, and reassembled. Breaking it into shorter phrases makes those steps easier to follow and clarifies how they fit together. Looking up long words would not address the sentence’s main difficulty, which is its length and structure.
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