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What is a topic of a passage?
A topic of a passage is the subject of the reading.
100
A main idea is made up of one or two words.
False.
100
Which is the MI sentence of the passage? 1.Actors are nervous before a play. 2.Politicians are nervous before they give a campaign speech. 3.Athletes are nervous before a big game. 4.Surveys show that 76 % of experienced speakers, such as novelists and lecturers, have stage fright before taking the floor. 5.In other words, it is perfectly normal to be nervous at the start of a speech. 6.Your body is responding as it normally would to any stressful situation-- by producing more adrenaline. 7.This sudden shot of adrenaline is what makes you heart race, your hands sake, your knees knock, and your skin perspire.
5.
200
How to find the topic of a passage?
Find the repeated word or phrase or the synonyms of a subject.
200
A reader can only find the MI in the beginning of the passage,
False. It can be in the beginning, middle, the end, or beginning and end of a passage.
200
Which sentence represents the MI? 1. The pattern of life for most Europeans between 1600 and 1800 centered on the struggle to stay alive. 2.At least once a decade, climatic conditions--usually a long period of summer rainfall--would produce a devastatingly bad harvest, which in turn would result in widespread malnutrition, often learn to serious illness and death.3. A family might survive for a time by eating less, but eventually, with its meager stocks exhausted and the cost of grain high, the human costs would mount. 4. The substitution of grass, nuts, and tree bark for grain on which the peasants depended almost entirely for nourishment was inadequate to sustain healthy life.
1.
300
Where can a reader find an author's main idea?
In the beginning, middle, end, or beginning and end.
300
One synonym of RADICAL is reasonable and thoughtful.
False.
300
Which sentence is the MI of the passage? 1.Off-price stores are those stores that sell name-brand merchandise at prices below those in department stores.2. They are able to do so for a couple of reasons.3. First, they take advantage of other people's mistakes and buy overstocked merchandise, irregular, end-of-seaon items, and production overruns, 4. Second, they obtain merchandise at cut rates directly from manufacturers.
2.
400
Name one antonym of RUTHLESS.
Kind, merciful, pitiful
400
A student who uses tutoring has higher prospects succeeding in class.
TRUE!!
400
Which sentence is the MI of the passage? 1. For most Americans, work is more than merely a means to food, shelter, and physical warmth.2. When people work, they contribute to society. 3. The fact that they receive pay for their work indicates that what they do is needed by other people, and that they are a necessary part of the social fabric. Work is also a major social mechanism for providing people with personal and social identities. 5. Much of who individuals are, to themselves and tours, is interwoven with how they earn their livelihood.
1.
500
Use "PROPAGANDA" to make a sentence.
EX. Advertising is one type of method to spread propaganda. During the elections. candidates pay ads to spread their propaganda so the viewers get brain washed to choose the ones and their political theories that show up on the screen the most.
500
No. 6 is the MI. 1.Texas has a variety of landscapes. 2.In the East there are woodlands. 3.These woodland areas have lots of pine trees and oak trees. 4.In central Texas there is everything from flatlands to giant rolling hills. 5.To the west the traveler might see the beginnings of mountains.6. All this variety means that there is something for everyone which makes Texas a great place live.
False.
500
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