Curtain Call

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What is most closely the meaning of the underlined part of the paragraph?

Most people don’t get to wake up every day and do something they’re passionate about. You always feel you can give more, but at some point you have to do what’s right for yourself. Maybe every athlete goes through that when they retire. It’s hard to open up your hands and let go of what you know. You hold on because it’s so much a part of your routine—and your life. I’ve always been training for something. What happens when that’s gone?

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Retiring means Cash giving up control of what is perhaps her greatest skill.

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What best explains the underlined section: "those are things we don’t get paid for"?

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Cash is emphasizing efforts she made that were driven by her values.

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What is the significance of the passage (paragraph 15)? Options: Cash’s skills as a player allowed her to accomplish goals that worked toward a greater good. Cash expects her career to springboard her to even greater success upon retirement. Cash found the greatest inspiration from the players who came before her. Cash’s strongest asset as a player was being able to drive to the basket.

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Cash’s skills as a player allowed her to accomplish goals that worked toward a greater good.

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How mainly does the following passage (paragraph 5) add to the development of the text? I remember coming into the league and seeing some of the players who helped launch the WNBA—players like Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Teresa Weatherspoon. They were playing not just for the love of the game, but because it was so important for the future. Futures that weren’t even theirs.

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Cash shows how she was inspired to work for the future of players that came after her by the effort put in by her predecessors.

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Main idea of the text regarding Cash's focus?

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Cash is more focused on the future of women’s basketball than she is in her own accomplishments.

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inaugural

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first

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dreary

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boring

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"To give control of something" means

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empower

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Something that is critical is..

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important

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If you reflect on your actions you

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think about the past