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In the past, families routinely sat down together to eat dinner. But in recent decades, that comfortable tradition has fallen bythe wayside. In 1900 , 2 percent of meals were eaten outside of the home. By 2010, that gigure had risen to 50 percent. A) Today, family members often go their own way at mealtimes and when they do sit down together, about three times a week, the m meal soften last less than twenty minutes and is spent eating a microwaved meal in front of a television. B) However, recent studies have shown that home cooked meals really matter. C) Family meals usually lead to the consumption of healthy foods backed with nutrition, rather than an intake of empty calories. D) Other benefits include strengthening familial bonda, and improving family communication.

The reader can conclude from the inofmation in the article that families

• need to find new recipes

• will end up never eating together

• will always find time for each other

• need more mealtimes together

In the past, families routinely sat down together to eat dinner. But in recent decades, that comfortable tradition has fallen bythe wayside. In 1900 , 2 percent of meals were eaten outside of the home. By 2010, that gigure had risen to 50 percent. A) Today, family members often go their own way at mealtimes and when they do sit down together, about three times a week, the m meal soften last less than twenty minutes and is spent eating a microwaved meal in front of a television. B) However, recent studies have shown that home cooked meals really matter. C) Family meals usually lead to the consumption of healthy foods backed with nutrition, rather than an intake of empty calories. D) Other benefits include strengthening familial bonda, and improving family communication. What is the author's main purpose for writing the passage?

• to argue family meals are important

• to explain how to eat healthy

• to share how meals are chaning

• to describe the benefits of family times.

In the past, families routinely sat down together to eat dinner. But in recent decades, that comfortable tradition has fallen bythe wayside. In 1900 , 2 percent of meals were eaten outside of the home. By 2010, that gigure had risen to 50 percent. A) Today, family members often go their own way at mealtimes and when they do sit down together, about three times a week, the m meal soften last less than twenty minutes and is spent eating a microwaved meal in front of a television. B) However, recent studies have shown that home cooked meals really matter. C) Family meals usually lead to the consumption of healthy foods backed with nutrition, rather than an intake of empty calories. D) Other benefits include strengthening familial bonda, and improving family communication. Select TWO details from the text that best support why families need more mealtimes together.

• Today, family memebers often go their own way at mealtimes and when they do sit down together, about three times a week, the meal often last less than twenty minutes an dis spent eating a microwaved meal in front of a television

• However, recent studies have shown that home cooked meals really mattter.

• Family meals usually lead to the consumption of healthy foods backed with nutrition, rather than an intake of empty calories.

• Other benefits include strengthening familial bonds, and improving family communications.

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lanturn With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling. The descriptive language in the first four lines.

• gives a more dramatics effect

• helps the reader visualize the fields

• emphasizes the hills

• mimics the sounds of fall.

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lanturn With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling. What mood best fits the poem?

• cheerful

• tearful

• hopeful

• peaceful

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lanturn With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling. What change should be made to line 12?

• Change am to an

• Change lanturn to lantern

• delet the apostrophe

• no change is needed

What does the word AMISS mean?

• wrong out of order

• feeling sad

• not solid, weak

• becoming fainter and more distant

What does the word FLIMSY mean?

• sad

• out of order

• not strong, weak

• fewer not many remain

Correct this sentence

She has a pet snake names rosie

Correct this sentence.

the united states is a big country

• The United States, is a big country.

• The United States is a big country.

• the united States is a big country.

• The United States is a big Country.