Applying Inquiry and Research Skills — Unit test

Question 1

Read the passage from "Carrots with Character,” which is an informational text about the health benefits of genetically modified carrots.The researchers, led by plant geneticist Philipp Simon, haven't limited themselves to the color orange. They've selectively bred a rainbow of carrots—purple, red, yellow, even white. Scientists are learning that these plant pigments perform a range of protective duties in the human body—which is not surprising, says Simon, since many of the pigments serve to shield plant cells during photosynthesis. Red carrots derive their color mainly from lycopene, a type of carotene believed to guard against heart disease and some cancers. Yellow carrots accumulate xanthophylls, pigments similar to beta-carotene that support good eye health. Purple carrots possess an entirely different class of pigments—anthocyanins—which act as powerful antioxidants.While colored carrots are unusual, they're not exactly new. "Purple and yellow carrots were eaten more than 1,000 years ago in Afghanistan and 700 years ago in western Europe,” says Simon. "But the carrot-­breeding process has gone on intensively for just 50 years.”Simon and his team of ARS researchers and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have recently shown that their highly pigmented carrots are a ready source of some sought-after nutrients.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

"Red carrots derive their color mainly from lycopene, a type of carotene believed to guard against heart disease and some cancers."

Question 2

Read the passage from "What Your Most Vivid Memories Say about You,” which is an informational text that explores what makes up a person’s identity.In an intriguing study, Connecticut College psychologist Jefferson Singer and his colleagues (2007) compared older adults with college students on self-defining memories. They found that older adults tended to come up with more general memories that linked several events together and that, in general, older adults tended to feel more positively about their self-defining memories, even if the memories were of events that were negative in nature. These findings fit with other lines of research suggesting that older adults have found ways to make sense out of their life stories. They convert memories of troubling events into stories of redemption in which they make peace with their past struggles. For younger adults, events of a negative nature had more rough edges, causing them to experience greater distress when they recalled them.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to provide evidence that connects age with self-defining memories

Question 3

Yuki wants to do a multimedia presentation on all the effects of disposing waste in the ocean.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

There would be too much information, and Yuki would need to narrow the topic.

Question 4

Which text feature is best for helping readers identify the main ideas in a procedural text?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

headings

Question 5

Kami wants to use the following research question for a multimedia presentation.How did colonialism impact modern society?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It is an open-ended question that needs to be more specific.

Question 6

Read the procedural text.Improving Photo CompositionComposition is a term that refers to where objects are placed in relation to each other in a frame. Basically, it’s the skill of arranging items in a pleasing way. First, you’ll want to decide on a distance from your subject: the farther you are, the more of the surroundings will be included in your photo. Of course you can always crop later but don’t rely on this. Camera orientation and angle are also important. Experiment with tilting your phone or kneeling down to see how the composition changes in your viewfinder.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

kneel down to add more area to the viewfinder

Question 7

Read the passage from "The Salem (and Other) Witch Hunts,” which is an informational text about witch hunts in the late 1600s. The sentencing of Bridget Bishop, the first victim of the witch trials, was typical of the Salem justice. Bishop was accused of not living "a Puritan lifestyle" because she wore black clothing. Her coat had been found to be oddly "cut or torn in two ways,” and her behavior was regarded as "immoral.” Thus convicted of witchcraft, she was tried on June 10, 1692, and executed by hanging the same day. Immediately following this execution, the court adjourned for 20 days and asked for advice from New England's most influential ministers "upon the state of things as they then stood.” A mere five days later, they produced a voluble answer penned by Cotton Mather, the prolific pamphleteer of the period, assuring the court and the grand jury that they had done well.The prominent ministers "humbly recommend[ed]" more of the same: that is, "the speedy and vigorous prosecution of such as have rendered themselves obnoxious, according to the direction given in the laws of God, and the wholesome statutes of the English nation . . . ”More people were accused, arrested and examined, but historians believe that by September 1692 the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

sequence

Question 8

Read the procedural text.A Guide to Training for a 5K RaceThis is a guide for beginners who have never run. This is just the beginning of your running journey. First, sign up for a 5K race in your area. This is your motivation. Then follow the numbered list provided to run 3 days per week. It really is that simple. Let’s get started.Running WorkoutsWalk for 5 minutes at a brisk pace. This is your warm-up.Stretch. Try to stretch both your arms and legs. Reach for the sky and then for your toes.Jog the Monday mileage on your chart for week one. It is ok to walk! Just finish your distance.Walk for 5 minutes at a slow pace. This is your cooldown.Repeat the procedure for the distances for Wednesday and Friday. Repeat the procedure for the distances on MWF for the next 7 weeks until Race Day. Remember, it is ok to walk.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It provides a schedule for runners to follow as they train for a 5K race.

Question 9

Read the passage from "Stalin: A Brutal Legacy Uncovered,” which is an informational text about Stalin’s atrocities and how he used ambition and fear to rule over people of the Soviet Union.As Khrushchev informed the closed session of the Party apparatchiks, his report—which has entered history as the "Secret Speech"—was based on research by a special commission of senior leaders of the Communist Party. It covered primarily only one part of Stalin's murderous record: the peak years of his savage "Great Purge" in the mid- and late 1930s, a massacre that wiped out a whole generation of Bolsheviks, the Party's oldest and most faithful members.Khrushchev, who went on to become the Soviet prime minister, said next to nothing about the rest of Stalin's victims, who have been estimated at more than 20 million.Stalin's genocidal record was the product of a ruthless, steely personality hardened by searing hardships in his youth: first, brutal beatings by his alcoholic, dirt-poor father; and later, several rounds of imprisonment and exile—from which he often escaped—following his expulsion from a Russian Orthodox seminary for fomenting a strike of railroad workers. For the 20-year-old Stalin, an outstanding student with top marks in Bible and Church studies, the strike was the first step on a new road - a career of rebellion, crime, and radical politics that eventually made him the unquestioned boss of the Communist Party and of 140 million people in the Soviet Union.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to give evidence of Stalin’s genocidal actions

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