LSAE - Text Evidence

This question has two parts. First answer Part A. Then answer Part B.

PART A: What can the reader infer about manipulating time based on the passage?

• 1. Manipulating time allows us to stay only in the present.

• 1. Manipulating time is impossible and cannot be considered.

• 1. Manipulating time involves jumping, looping, and traveling in a machine.

• 1. Manipulating time is a concept the passage discourages.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

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Which text evidence supports your answer to Part A?

• 1. "What if, instead of moving from the past to the present to the future,"

• 1. "we could manipulate time, so that we could jump, loop, and travel through it"

• 1. "in a machine, wherever and whenever we pleased?"

• 1. "What if, instead of moving from the past to the present to the future, we could manipulate time"

Which sentence from the selection best states the author's main objective in paragraphs 2 through 3?

• 1. What if we could witness historic wonders, change decisions, and see people from our past?"

• 1. "The mysterious puzzle about time's boundaries has kept philosophers debating its nature for centuries."

• 1. "Science fiction writers, such as H.G. Wells, have plotted time into wildly imaginative stories."

• 1. "Some physicists have attempted mathematical equations to make the dream of time travel a reality.

In paragraph 4, the author mentions “spacetime” to illustrate:

• 1. Albert Einstein's interest in space exploration.

• The concept of time and space being interconnected

• 1. Hermann Minkowski's contributions to physics.

• 1. The limitations of three-dimensional space.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What can the reader infer about the limitations of time travel from paragraphs 8 to 12?

• 1. Time travel requires minimal energy and force.

• 1. Going faster than the speed of light is necessary for survival during time travel.

• 1. Traveling back to a time before the creation of the time machine is possible.

• 1. There are specific challenges and rules, including avoiding encounters with the time machine itself.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Which sentence from the selection best supports the author's main objective in explaining the obstacles to successful time travel?

• 1. "You cannot go faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) and survive."

• 1. "A rocket ship or time machine with a human inside would take tons of energy to plunge through time."

• 1. "You cannot travel back to a time before the time machine was created."

• 1. "To time travel, you must change your position in time and space or the machine will run into itself.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which sentence from the selection best supports the author's main objective in explaining the history of time travel in literature and entertainment?

• 1. "The first known science fiction story with this theme, 'The Clock That Went Backward,' by Edward P. Mitchell, was published in 1881."

• 1. "Since then, thousands of tales, books, films, comic strips, television shows, songs, and commercials have delighted the imaginations of countless readers and viewers with their depictions of time travel."

• 1. "Since the concept is portrayed as tricky and unpredictable, the consequences often involve mad scientists, monsters, faulty time machines and people stuck in the wrong time period."

• 1. “Just think: If you could go back in time, your presence in the past could cause events to go out of whack, creating questions and chaos.”

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2