Unit 3 Review

Read the excerpt below from "Put That Cow on a Diet." Which sentence best supports the writer’s claim that decreasing methane production will have little effect on consumers.

(1) About 10 years ago, two Australian scientists, Robert Kinley and Rocky de Nys, discovered that certain seaweeds added to cows’ feed lowered their methane emissions, but the high dosages required upset the bovines’ digestion. Then they tried Asparagopsis taxiformis, a macroalgae that looks something like a pink underwater fern and grows wild around Australia. (2) In the lab, adding just a little of this seaweed—2 percent of feed—to artificial cow stomachs reduced methane output so much that it became virtually undetectable. Kinley, de Nys, and their colleagues have since demonstrated that sheep fed a little A. taxiformis produce up to 85 percent less methane. (3) Preliminary reports from California are similarly encouraging: Cows eating a diet that is just 1 percent seaweed produce 50 percent less methane, and the reduction is immediate. What about the taste of their milk? (4) In a blind test, 25 testers perceived no difference between samples from cows fed with and without seaweed. Good thing, because marketing milk with “a scent of the sea” would be a challenge.

• Sentence 1

• Sentence 2

• Sentence 3

• Sentence 4

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Read the sentence from paragraph 17 of “When Mindfulness Meets the Classroom”. Which detail from “Instead of Detention” best helps the reader understand the phrase “noise in a kid’s head”?

"If you don’t address the noise in a kid’s head that they bring in from the outside, I don’t care how good a teacher you are, you’re not going to have much success."

• “‘We have a few frequent fliers here,’ Lee said.” (paragraph 12)

• “‘When the kids come down here, they’re all rowdy and goofing around,’ . . .” (paragraph 14)

• “‘We aren’t in a place yet where we can say that we know this works,’ she said.” (paragraph 25)

• “‘These kids who are dealing with high-stress situations a lot of the time are coming into school on high alert.’” (paragraph 27)

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Which direct quote best supports the theme that personal relationships suffer from hardships?

• “All summer long the family toiled, and in the fall they had money enough for Jurgis and Ona to be married according to home traditions of decency.”

• “They were shaken to the depths of them, with the awe of love realized—and was it so very weak of them that they cried out for a little peace?”

• “It was fully a week before they were all normal again, and meantime, with whining children and cross adults, the house was not a pleasant place to live in.”

• “The store-keepers plastered up their windows with all sorts of lies to entice you; the very fences by the wayside, the lampposts and telegraph poles, were pasted over with lies.”

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Which detail best supports an anxious tone?

• "When Cora stepped into the hallway again, the woman summoned her up the stairs to the attic."

• "Two broken washboards, piles of moth-eaten quilts, chairs with split seats."

• "Ethel looked at Cora for the first time, her drawn face framed by the hatch."

• "'Not a sound. Not a single sound. If anyone hears you, we are lost.'"

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How does the author use figurative language in the sentence below to contribute to the meaning of the passage?

They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them.

• to convey a sense of beauty about the couple’s relationship

• to emphasize the short time the couple experienced together

• to illustrate how nature played a part in the couple’s relationship

• to contrast the expectations of the couple with the reality they experience

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Choose the correct words to make the sentence parallel.
Don would always open the mail, throw away the junk mail, and ___________.

• to organize the bills
• organizing the bills
• organize the bills
• organization of the bills

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The whole forest waited, listening, to see what would happen next.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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Simile or Metaphor:
My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.

• simile
• metaphor

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How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

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Where would it be most common to use an Anaphora ?

• A biography

• Talking to a friend

• A speech

• In a text

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