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What is the purpose of the thesis?

• To remind your reader what your paper is about
• To state your opinion or claim and prove it
• To hook the reader's attention
• To use vocabulary words

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Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. 
This passage is mainly about?

• who uses pemmican today
• what can be put into pemmican
• how pemmican was made by Native Americans

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Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.
 What is the main idea?

• Soccer is important at the Olympics.
• Soccer is a worldwide sport.
• Soccer is also called football.
• Soccer is played by men and women.

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Wednesday morning, the Frankfurt Book Fair opened its doors. Over 280,000 visitors from all over came to Frankfurt, Germany for this event. This is the biggest book fair in the world. It also has the most visited book publishing website in the world. The German Publishers and Booksellers Association runs the fair. The association says that the book market is doing very well. Over 100 countries and almost 7,500 people are showing books at the fair this year. There are over 100,000 new books being shown out of nearly 400,000 books at the fair. Prizes are given to authors and publishers at the fair. There are also meetings about new ways to present books to the public.

This paragraph is mainly about?

• The new ways to sell books to the public.
• The opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
• The prizes given at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
• The popularity of book fairs in the world.

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The characteristics of a hurricane are powerful winds, driving rain, and raging seas. Although a storm must have winds blowing at least 74 miles an hour to be classified as a hurricane, it is not unusual to have winds above one hundred and fifty miles per hour in a major hurricane. The entire storm system can be five hundred miles in diameter, with lines of clouds that spiral toward a center called the "eye." Within the eye itself, which is about 15 miles across, the air is actually calm and cloudless. But this eye is enclosed by a towering wall of thick clouds where the storm's heaviest rains and highest winds are found.
What is the main idea presented in this paragraph?

• Hurricanes are more destructive than tornadoes.
• Hurricanes have winds of at least 74 miles an hour.
• The eye of a hurricane is about 15 miles across.
• Hurricanes have very dangerous characteristics.

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Anchorage, Alaska is one of the largest cities in the U.S., covering over 1,958 square miles. Many large cities cover an area of 100 square miles or less. Anchorage sports many tall buildings, malls, hotels, and bicycle paths. Anchorage received its current name in 1915. Its residents chose "Anchorage" because ships anchored there. 
What is the main focus of this paragraph?

• The stories behind U.S. cities' names.
• The description of Anchorage, Alaska.
• The reason behind tall buildings in cities.
• The explanation of the size of large cities.

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The spots on a fawn's coat let it hide in shady areas without being seen. The viceroy butterfly looks like the bad-tasting monarch, so birds avoid both. The hognose snake hisses and rolls on its back when it fears another animal. When the opossum is attacked, it plays dead. Distressed turtles hide in their shells until they're sure it's safe to come out again.

• How a fawn develops spots
• The defense strategy of a opossum
• How some animals protect themselves
• Why turtles hide in their shells

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A piece of text that provides accurate facts and descriptions about a particular topic.

• Mystery

• Biography

• Action and Adventure

• Informational Text

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What things should not be included in an objective summary?

• Supporting ideas and opinions

• The word "I," your opinion, cited text evidence

• Facts and Statistics

• The author's name and title of the article

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Each year, millions of people come visit the U.S. national parks. In 2014, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park had more visitors than any other. Over 10 million people came to witness its beautiful mountains. Not even the Grand Canyon was as popular as Great Smoky. Less than half as many came to see the giant canyon. Great Smoky has 800 miles of hiking trails that stretch across two states, North Carolina and Tennessee. The park also has over 10,000 species of plants and animals. It has 31 kinds of salamander alone! Bears are also plentiful in the park. Visitors must take care not to disturb them.

One reason the Great Smokies area is so popular is that it is very close to cities. The town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is just a five-minute drive from one of the park's three main entrances. This means visitors can easily take a hike in the park and drive back to the city in one day. However, the downside is that air pollution from the city can be a problem in the park. Even so, it has not stopped millions of people from enjoying the many wonders the park has to offer.

What is the central idea of this passage?

• Pollution from nearby cities has a negative effect on Great Smoky park.

• Visitors can easily reach Great Smoky National Park from a nearby city.

• Great Smoky National Park has many species of plants and animals.

• Great Smoky National Park is the most popular national park in the country.

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