Viewpoint, Purpose, and Source

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Many Americans regularly eat beef, which is meat that comes from cattle. 2 We ought to replace beef with chicken in our diets. 3 It takes eleven times more water to raise cattle for beef than it does to raise chickens. 4 Cattle also require twenty-eight times more land than chickens do.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.8

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Most banks offer savings accounts for adults, families, and children. 2 All young people should open their own savings accounts. 3 When you keep money in a savings account, you earn interest. 4 Interest is extra money the bank gives you for just keeping your money with them.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Our school has three bike racks. 2 These racks can fit a total of fifteen bikes. 3 However, in a recent survey, more than three dozen students said they would like to ride their bikes to school. 4 We should definitely get more bike racks.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Brad Foley ought to be elected class president. 2 Brad has served on the school council for the last three years. 3 He was also a member of the school club that painted the mural near the library.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 My dog Astro, weighs only fourteen pounds, but he is the toughest little pup in the whole world! 2 When we go to the beach together, he guards our blankets from anything and everything that tries to come near. 3 One time he even barked at a pickup truck that was driving by.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Knowing where our words come from is important. 2 For example, the word "library" comes from a Latin word. 3 The Latin word for "book" is liber.

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CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Rachel the Magician is a terrible magician. 2 She did a trick where she was supposed to make a card disappear. 3 My brother and I were sitting in the front row at her show and we could see the card down her sleeve.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 The one-cent coin, or penny, has been used in the United States since 1787. 2 Today, though, pennies are more trouble than they're worth. 3 The metal that it takes to make a single penny costs more than one cent!

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.5.1

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 The Burmese python is a snake that eats small mammals and birds. 2 Some of these pythons even eat pigs. 3 Seeing a Burmese python in the wild would really be frightening.

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CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 The Spanish artist Salvador Dali had a great imagination. 2 You may have seen one of his paintings of melting clocks. 3 People have many different ideas about what the melting clocks in his paintings might mean.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6