Summarizing

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Summary of the passage about Jill's birthday dinner options: Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House, fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, a cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace, or pizza at the Pizza Shop.

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Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

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Summary of passage: Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream.

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Jason really wanted to play third base.

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Summary of the passage about ants:

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Ants are hard workers.

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Summary of passage: The first book Chris read in fifth grade was about a lost kitten. Then he read a book about a family of bears, and then he read about a wild kangaroo in Australia. It seems every book Chris reads is about animals. Last week he found a good book about snakes and reptiles, and another book about elephants. Today Chris went to the library, and he checked out a book about dolphins, whales and other animals that live in the sea.

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Chris reads a lot of books about animals.

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Summary of paragraph: Is it an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.

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Although ants resemble termites, they have differences that can be easily seen.