Read the excerpt from a report. (1) Cleaning up the existing garbage in the ocean would begin to address the issue of climate change. (2) A company called the Ocean Cleanup Project has successfully developed a self-contained system that collects ocean garbage. (3) It uses the natural forces of the ocean to dump floating plastic. (4) The system consists of a thing, which holds a ten-foot screen below and catches the waste. (5) It would be awesome to have a bunch of these systems removing garbage.
Read the paragraphs from a report.First, the issue of greater fuel efficiency is helping to remedy climate change. If all the cars on our roads got 50 miles per gallon, greenhouse emissions produced by automobiles would be cut enormously. A car that gets 25 miles per gallon produces a little more than twice as much greenhouse emissions as a car that gets 50 miles per gallon. Greater fuel efficiency reduces the greenhouse gases implicated in climate change.Having considered the relevant data, this report recommends greater effort to produce cars that are increasingly fuel efficient with each new year. This effort should come primarily from car manufacturers. The shift to greater fuel efficiency should be greatly accelerated through government assistance at the national level. Greater fuel efficiency would result in lower greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and less fossil-fuel consumption. That is one of the best ways to reduce the effects of climate change.
Which best describes the speaker of "London's Summer Morning"?
Read the excerpt from "London's Summer Morning."Now pastry dainties catch the eye minuteOf humming insects, while the limy snareWaits to enthrall them.What does this excerpt from the poem describe?
Review the outline of an informative report about ocean pollution.I. Introduce the topic of the effects of ocean pollution. A. Mention how much garbage, including plastic, isfloating in the oceans. B. Mention how preventing dumping of plastics canslow the release of greenhouse gases. II. Discuss key findings about the amount of garbage inthe ocean. A. Millions of tons of garbage enter the oceans eachyear. B. There are floating garbage patches in the ocean. III. Preventing the dumping of plastics can slow therelease of greenhouse gases. A. Sunlight causes plastic to release greenhousegases. B. Greenhouse gases cause the warming of the planet. IV. Conclusion A. Restate the purpose of the essay. B. Summarize the key findings and recommendations.
When writing a report for a job interview, the introduction should
Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.The text structure used to support the viewpoint in the paragraph is
Based on "How We Entered World War I," which detail explains why the sinking of the Lusitania led the United States to enter World War I?
Read the excerpt from a report. (1) Stopping trash before it gets to the ocean is way better than having to clean it up in the ocean. (2) The city of Baltimore has a large machine called Mr. Trash Wheel. (3) The machine is powered by the sun and the flow of the river. (4) Floating booms off the front of the machine funnel garbage toward a conveyor belt. (5) The belt takes the garbage from the water and puts it in a dumpster. (6) The trash wheel helps collect garbage in the river after it flows out into the ocean
Read a key findings paragraph from an informative report on ocean pollution.Discarded plastics in our oceans are a significant source of climate change. As these plastics float in the oceans, sunlight and heat cause them to release greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases cause the planet to warm. Preventing plastic from getting into the ocean will consequently lessen the release of greenhouse gases worldwide.
Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker think of his neighbor?
Which practice was typical of Robert Frost?
What is the purpose of a key findings paragraph in an informative report?
How does the text structure of "Wilson's War Message to Congress" help to support his message?
Which piece of data would best be incorporated into a report about plastic waste in the world’s water?
Read the sentence from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.In this sentence, Wilson compares the German government to governments of the past. What is he hoping to convey?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again.We keep the wall between us as we go.To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of out-door game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.What does the phrase “one on a side” mean?
Read the poem “Roses,” by George Eliot. You love the roses—so do I. I wishThe sky would rain down roses, as they rainFrom off the shaken bush. Why will it not?Then all the valley would be pink and whiteAnd soft to tread on. They would fall as lightAs feathers, smelling sweet; and it would beLike sleeping and like waking, all at once! What is the main style difference between “Roses” and "Night"?
Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. Which phrase from the excerpt best indicates that the narrator is lost in thought?
Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."The lamp hummed: "Regard the moon, La lune ne garde aucune rancune, She winks a feeble eye, She smiles into corners. She smoothes the hair of the grass. The moon has lost her memory. The French line “La lune ne garde aucune rancune” translates to “The moon never holds a grudge.” Which best describes the meaning of this line?
There are many time references in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," such asTwelve o'clock. Half-past one, Half-past three, The lamp said, "Four o'clock, What is the most likely explanation for these repeated references?
Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."I could see nothing behind that child's eye. I have seen eyes in the street Trying to peer through lighted shutters, And a crab one afternoon in a pool, An old crab with barnacles on his back, Gripped the end of a stick which I held him. The excerpt is an example of what type of narration?
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