RL & RI 7.6 Author's Purpose & Author's Point of View

Which of the following details would BEST support the author's purpose for writing this text?

• Who would win in a fight, a lion or a tiger?

• They can sprint as fast as 40 miles per hour for short distances and leap as far as 30 feet horizontally.

• You might not think that such large, fast, and ferocious creatures need help to survive, but they do.

• This makes for an extremely dangerous pounce.

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Which detail BEST supports the author's point of view on the impact humans have had on tigers?

• Humans have done considerable damage to the world’s tiger population through hunting, but perhaps more damage has been caused through the destruction of habitat.

• But over the past 100 years, tigers have lost 93% of their historic range. Instead of spanning all the way across Asia, the tiger population is now isolated in small pockets in south and southeastern Asia.

• This is because humans have drastically changed the environments.

• To feed the people living in these areas, forests and fields have been cleared to create farmland.

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Which of the following details BEST supports the author's perspective on the significance of conservation?

• Though tiger population faces many threats and obstacles to recovery, there have been some successes in conservation and preservation efforts.

• Save China’s Tigers, an organization working to restore the wild tiger population, successfully rewilded a small number of South China tigers.

• This organization brought these tigers to South Africa and helped them learn the necessary skills for a predator to survive in the wild.

• Current evidence indicates that the project was been successful. While this is just a small step, it shows that restoring the world’s tiger population is possible.

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Which detail BEST supports the author's perspective on the significance of the Library of Alexandria?

• The Library of Alexandria was the greatest library of the ancient world.

• Built around 280 BC, this library held as many as 700,000 books and scrolls.

• This library was built 1600 years before the invention of the printing press. Every text in the collection was handwritten.

• The collection of texts at the Library of Alexandria was priceless in every sense.

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Which detail BEST supports the author's belief that invasive species can be harmful to an ecosystem?

• Introducing the Asian carp into waters that have not known them can be devastating.

• This system rests delicately on a balance that has evolved over millions of years.

• They breed rapidly and densely populate the waters. Worse still, they compete with the native bottom feeders.

• When the Asian carp outperform them, the whole food chain suffers, all the way up to the people.

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Which detail BEST supports how the narrator feels towards Warren?

• I was not fond of Warren

• He was always playing around in class when I was trying to learn.

• Ha! I would not concede.

• I replied under my breath, "I don't know," and then offered him the wrong answer, "maybe C?"

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Which detail BEST supports a contrast in the points of view in the story?

• He believed that the gorilla would make a magnificent addition to the menagerie.

• The sultan, however, would not have it.

• He insisted that they passed on purchasing the creature.

• Deep in his heart, the sultan felt that animals should not glow.

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