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1. 4.2 If you are committed to healthy, green living and want to reduce your environmental footprint, you might consider expanding your daily diet to include bugs. Supporters of the edible insect initiative rightfully argue that farming insects has a much lower environmental impact than does raising livestock since bugs are easier to harvest and require a fraction of the water and land space that cattle need. Indeed, the high-protein, low-fat health benefits of bug-eating have long been known. For hundreds of years, crickets, silkworms and even tarantulas have been served roasted, stewed and fried at the dinner tables of many cultures. Which words best describe the author's attitude toward the "edible insect initiative"?

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2. 2.2 Maria is watching too much television. A toddler shouldn't be spending hours staring blankly at a screen. Worse yet, some of her wild behavior has been inspired by those awful cartoons she watches. We need to spend more time reading books with her and pull the plug on the TV!   What is the Main idea of this paragraph?

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3. 3.2 (A+) Is this statement true or false? We know for a fact that the old man doesn't like the narrator.  

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4. 3.2 (A+) As Alice rounded the corner, the sun caught the long curls on her beautiful red hair. What does the sentence communicate about the character?  

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5. 1.1 Plywood, while not the most pleasing wood to look at, has become an incredibly important building material in house construction. It is flexible, inexpensive, and strong. Its strength is due to layers of thin wood glued on top of each other with the grain of each layer making a right angle with the grain of the layer below it. This way of layering the sheets of wood makes plywood difficult to break. According to the passage, the arrangement of the layers of thin wood explains plywood's

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6. 2.1 Television has been the primary source of information and entertainment for most Americans over the last 50 years. However, with Internet use on the rise year after year, some may wonder if surfing the net will soon surpass watching television as Americans' primary leisure activity. Indeed, some recent surveys show that time spent on the Internet is now greater than time spent in front of the television. However, this statistic may not tell the whole story, as 59% of Americans say they multitask, using the Internet and watching TV simultaneously. The main idea of the passage is that television

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7. 3.2 (A+) Rick skipped along the sidewalk, whistling his favorite tune. He knew he had done well on his exam. What does the sentence communicate about the character?  

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8. 4.2 Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena became a successful inventor at an early age. By the age of seven, he had constructed a variety of electronically-propelled toys to play with; he later designed and built his own amateur radio and a functioning telescope. In 1940, when he was only 23, Camarena obtained the world's first patent for color television. Camarena's early color television transmission system was the first one to be approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Other color-television technologies came after Camarena's patented invention, but his system is still used by a number of scientists today. In sentence 2, the word "functioning" most nearly means

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9. 3.1 The tornado caused wide-spread devastation to property in the local area. Property insurance is much more expensive now than it was before the storm. What does the second sentence do?  

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10. 3.1 The rain froze as it touched the ground. Roads were slippery and dangerous. How are the two sentences related?  

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11. 3.2 (A+) Chuck chewed down on the toothpick that he clenched between his teeth. "I have to win this grand prize money for the race so I can finally get the new bike!" he mumbled to himself as he round the curb. What does the sentence communicate about the character?  

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12. 2.2 Unemployment was the overriding fact of life when Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States on March 4, 1933.The president selected Harry L. Hopkins, who headed the New York relief program, to run FERA.A gifted administrator, Hopkins quickly put the program into high gear. He gathered a small staff in Washington and brought the state relief organizations into the FERA system. While the agency tried to provide all the necessities, food came first. FERA paid for medicine, some doctor bills, but no hospital costs, work-relief, sewing rooms, and renovated hand-me-down clothing. The paragraph is primarily about  

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13. 2.2 Details in the passage suggest that the narrator is

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14. 4.1 (A+) Which point of view does the author use?  

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15. 2.2 Members of Congress are responsive to the people, if the people make clear what they want. For example, in response to popular demands, Congress established a program in 1988 to shield the elderly against the catastrophic costs associated with acute illness. In 1989, in response to complaints from the elderly about higher Medicare premiums, Congress abolished most of what it had created the previous year. The implied main idea of this paragraph is that  

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16. 2.2 (A+) What is the narrator's impression of the old man?  

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17. 2.1 When we think of volcanoes, eruptions, lava, and smoke- filled air come to mind—all occurring on land. Most people are surprised to learn about the prevalence of underwater volcanoes on our planet. Because the lava and smoke spilling out of an active, underwater volcano is contained by the ocean, people generally do not take note of these eruptions. However, the largest underwater volcanoes are capable of creating huge tidal waves, threatening coastal communities. The main idea of the passage is that

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18. 3.2 Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants.They will look and behave much like real humans.We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind.Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience.They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.   Which sentence from the paragraph expresses the main idea?

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19. 2.2 The 1922 German Expressionist film Nosferatu, directed by F. W. Murnau, is considered one of the most influential films in cinematic history—while also being a classic vampire movie. The film is closely based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula; however, the villain in the film is called "Count Orlok" rather than "Count Dracula." The reason is that the small studio that produced the film, Prana Film, was unable to secure the rights to Stoker's novel. In fact, shortly after finishing Nosferatu, its one and only film, Prana went bankrupt in order to dodge copyright lawsuits from Stoker's widow. Why does the author say that the vampire in Nosferatu is named "Count Orlok" and not "Count Dracula"?

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20. 2.1 In contrast to the solemn attitude toward death so prevalent in the United States, a familiar and even ironic attitude is more common among Mexicans and Mexican Americans.In the Mexican worldview, death is another phase of life and those who have passed into it remain accessible.Ancestors are not forever lost, nor are the past dead.This sense of continuity has its roots in the culture of the Aztecs, for whom regeneration was a central theme.When the Spanish came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, their beliefs about death, along with such symbols as skulls and skeletons, were absorbed into the native culture. What does the paragraph tell us about views on death according to Mexican Culture?  

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21. 4.1 When the narrator repeatedly uses the pronouns "we" and "us," she is most likely speaking of herself and

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22. 1.1 In line 1, "this work" clearly refers to

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23. 3.2 Long thought to be a case of mistaken identity, the discovery of the Bornean rainbow toad by European explorers in 1924 was recently verified by scientists. The explorers had made a black-and-white sketch of an unusual toad they had found in the jungles of Southeast Asia, christening it the Bornean rainbow toad. Skeptical but curious, scientists recently went to look for the toad—and ended up finding three specimens. The passage implies which of the following about the Bornean rainbow toad?

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24. 1.1 The Midwest is experiencing its worst drought in fifteen years. Corn and soybean prices are expected to be very high this year. What does the second sentence do?  

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25. 3.1 The author of Passage 2 probably would respond to the last sentence of Passage 1 ("Parents . . . every day!") by

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26. 3.1 The author of Passage 1 would most likely criticize the author of Passage 2 for

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27. 3.2 In 2010, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and novelist Jonathan Franzen kissed and made up after a nine-year feud. In 2001, Franzen was disinvited from appearing on Winfrey's TV show to pitch his novel The Corrections after he made it clear that he was unhappy about the book's being chosen for the Oprah Book Club. Describing his work as "in the high-art literary tradition," Franzen said he didn't want to be associated with the Club, which he accused of occasionally choosing "schmaltzy, one-dimensional" novels. But Winfrey is apparently able to forgive and forget: she chose Franzen's next novel, Freedom, for her book club and said of it, "Now you haven't heard me say this word often, but this book is a masterpiece." The passage implies that Franzen's criticism of the Oprah Book Club was motivated primarily by

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28. 4.1  The main authors of The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are usually thought of as America's "Founding Fathers." Other, less known personages also deserve the title, however, and Noah Webster was one of these. Through his writings, which include the still- influential dictionary that bears his name, Webster sought to legitimize an "American English" that was independent of British spelling and pronunciation. For instance, Webster removed the "u" from "colour," creating the distinct American version of the word.   What is the main purpose of this passage?

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29. 4.1 The descriptions of the Lab and of the ice house are similar in that both descriptions

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30. 3.2 (A+) Walter has always been lucky. He once found $20.00 on the sidewalk, and his name is always chosen when his school has a raffle. One day, he felt lucky that he spent his lunch money on a few small toys at the corner store. He figured that he was so lucky. Some other money would surely find him. What motivated Walter to spend his lunch money?  

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