Launch Text: Leaving Main Street

Leaving Main street is an example of what type of writing?

• Nonfiction narrative writing in which the author explores an experience using descriptive details and events.

• Argumentative writing in which an author states and defends a position on a topic.

• Explanatory writing in which the author share detailed information about a topic or process.

Answer explanation

Argumentative writing in which an author states and defends a position on atopic

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The space craft New Horizons traveled nine years into space to study...

• Mars.

• the solar system.

• the stars.

• the dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.

Answer explanation

The text explicitly states that, "the spacecraft New Horizons traveled nine years to study the dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system."

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There has always been naysayers to question the need for space exploration. According to the text, what is the position of the naysayers?

• The argument goes that the United States has more important things to spend its money on, such as ending hunger and poverty.

• The argument goes that the United States has more important things to spend its money on, such as education and more space crafts.

• The argument goes that the United States has more important things to spend its money on, such as buying more spacecraft.

• The argument goes that the United States has more important things to spend its money on, finding life on other planets.

Answer explanation

The argument goes that the United States has more important things to spend its money on, such as ending hunger and poverty.

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Others argue that a successful space program adds to our national prestige, ____________, ___________, and _________.

Answer explanation

The text states that a successful space program adds to our national prestige, helps the economy, creates jobs, and improves national security.

Michael Griffin in Air & Space Magazine says humans explore space because...

• Humans want to find aliens.

• Humans have nothing else to do.

• It's in our genes.

• It's cheap and inexpensive.

Answer explanation

Griffin says that, it's in our genes.

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What does the the text say will happen if we stop exploring space?

• America will save tons of money and stop hunger an povery.

• The United States can create a better educational system and build better schools.

• Humans will become over emotional and value-driven.

• If we stop exploring space, soon society will have forgotten what it's like to be human.

Answer explanation

If we stop exploring space, soon society will have forgotten what it's like to be human.

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Which of the following statements does NOT support that human are hardwired with certain built in features that compel us to want to explore space.

• NASA's space program inspires competition and innovation.

• The cost of exploration is vastly outweighed by the idea of extending humankind's sphere of influence to outer space.

• There is something about the human condition that strives to be the best, or the first, at something.

• Humans are curious about exploring new places.

• Humans have always created monuments to commemorate their great achievements, so that the next generation will remember who they are and how they spent their time here.

Answer explanation

The cost of exploration is vastly outweighed by the idea of extending humankind's sphere of influence to outer space.

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What is paragraph 12 mostly about? What does the author want us to know?

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