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Speaking and Listening: Effective Group Discussions — Unit test Answers

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Read the rough draft of a student’s conclusion to an argumentative editorial.(1) Year-round schooling would help student achievement. (2) Not so much information would have to be crammed into nine months. (3) Furthermore, the elimination of long breaks, particularly summer break, would significantly reduce "learning loss” and the additional time wasted at the beginning of each academic year to reteach previously learned material. (4) It is clear that year-round schooling helps students learn and retain more. (5) The United States is not the only country to experiment with a year-round school schedule. (6) Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, these people need to open their eyes and see that students in these schools consistently score higher on certain assessments than students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars. (7) It is about time that we replaced our outdated and inefficient school calendars.

A
Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, studies consistently reveal that year-round students score higher on certain assessments than those students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars.
B
Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, this theory is wrong because students in year-round schools consistently score higher on certain assessments than those students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars.
C
Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, they would admit defeat if only they would do their research and find that students in year-round schools consistently score higher on certain assessments than those students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars.
D
Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, these people need to study their facts and acknowledge that students in year-round schools consistently score higher on certain assessments than those students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars.
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Read the signature.JennyTo include this signature in a formal letter, it should be revised to contain the writer’s

A
full first name and middle name.
B
nickname and last name.
C
title and full first name.
D
full first name and last name.
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Read the formal e-mail.Dear Dr. Townsend,Our neighborhood watch group would like to accept your offer to visit with our group next month. Your proposed presentation addresses many of the issues that are of immediate concern to our group. Given your impressive credentials, we value your input and look forward to your presentation. To solidify the details, please use my contact information below to contact me.Sincerely,Marissa Lee

A
While the e-mail contains a proper salutation and closing, the language in the body of the letter is too informal.
B
While the e-mail contains formal language in the body, the salutation is formatted incorrectly and the contact information is missing.
C
While the e-mail contains a proper closing and signature, the salutation is wrong because the heading is missing.
D
While the e-mail contains formal formatting for the salutation and signature, both the body and the closing have formatting errors.
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Read the excerpt from "Justin Lebo.”It was a BMX bike with a twenty-inch frame. Its original color was buried beneath five or six coats of gunky paint. Now it showed up as sort of a rusted red. Everything—the grips, the pedals, the brakes, the seat, the spokes—were bent or broken, twisted and rusted.

A
highlight the amount of money Justin had to spend to restore the bicycle.
B
illustrate why Justin wanted to give the bicycle away to someone else.
C
emphasize how hard Justin had to work to restore the bicycle.
D
show why Justin may have made a mistake in buying this bicycle.

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