Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number of the sentence that contains the main idea.   (1)You can help save the Earth by forming some environmentally sound habits. (2)Store foods in covered bowls instead of wrapping them in foil. (3)Write on both sides of a piece of paper, and use scrap paper for messages. (4)Turn off the water—until you need it—while washing dishes, brushing your teeth, or shaving. (5)Eliminate a couple of car trips per week. (6)Choose cloth diapers instead of disposable ones. (7)Avoid lawn-care chemicals, which can find their way into water supplies. (8)Also, put aluminum cans, plastic containers, and papers in recycling containers when you are finished with them.   The sentence that expresses the main idea is

Directions: Which general idea best covers the specific ideas?Specific ideas: lose weight, quit smoking, cut down on fats, eat more fiberThe general idea is

Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the sentence that best expresses the implied main idea of the passage.   (1)Rock, which was first called rock and roll, includes several different styles. (2)All of those styles, however, focus on vocal music—one or more singers—often accompanied by electric guitars. (3)Other common rock instruments are electric instruments, including the bass and drums. (4)All forms of rock feature a hard, pounding, very powerful beat. (5)Another feature is loudness, often so great it can damage players’ hearing.   The sentence that best expresses the implied main idea is

Directions: Which general idea best covers the specific ideas?Specific ideas: infant, toddler, grade schooler, teenagerThe general idea is

A customer wants to install a stationary battery charging system for their new  electric car; what section of the 2021 IRC would contain this information?

Read the following excerpt of published criticism of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.  For each excerpt, note whether it repeats something that has already been said in the critical conversation or adds something new to the critical conversation. If the excerpt adds something new, which of the three approaches to joining the conversation (adding new evidence, adding new interpretations, or disagreeing with previous interpretations) do you see the critic using? I agree with Hirsch when she mentions Mama’s “ability to take pleasure in her daughter’s difference without conceding any of her own choices and values” and her ability to maintain a distance from Dee “without visibly rejecting her” (203). While critics often point to Dee’s aggressiveness, which intrudes into the pastoral calm of Mama’s home, by quoting Mama’s comment that the dress Dee wears is “so loud it hurts my eyes,” they fail to note that Mama says shortly after, “I like it” (28). Mama has held a place for “Dee,” and if “Dee” is no longer htere, she will try to accommodate “Wangero.”

Read the following excerpt of published criticism of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.  For each excerpt, note whether it repeats something that has already been said in the critical conversation or adds something new to the critical conversation. If the excerpt adds something new, which of the three approaches to joining the conversation (adding new evidence, adding new interpretations, or disagreeing with previous interpretations) do you see the critic using? [Wangero] wants the photographs–and presently the churn lid, the dasher, and the quilts–for purposes of display, reminders that she no longer has to live in such a house, care for such a cow, have daily intercourse with such a mother and sister. She “makes the mistake,” says Donna Haisty Winchell, “of believing that one’s heritage is something that one puts on display if and when such a display is fashionable” (81). Wangero seems to think the African-American past can be rescued only by being commodified.

What is an alternative type of bar graph that uses pictures to show the frequency of the data?

Community Hospital conducted a year-long study to measure the effect of smoking upon the birth weight of a newborn. In 20XX, the following information was collected for each mother and her newborn, who participated in the study.   Mother smoked during the pregnancy: Yes   No Newborn birth weight (g): ____________________ (g) APGAR score after 1 minute: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 APGAR score after 5 minutes: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Birth date: _____/_____/2010 Sex of newborn: Male   Female   The scales of the above variables are:

What do the wedges or divisions in a pie graph represent?