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Most people think that gorillas are mean, but actually they are shy. It seems that such a huge animal with very large teeth would be aggressive. Hollywood movies help convey this image of the scary, ferocious gorilla. In fact, gorillas only attack if they are provoked. 
This author belives that:

• Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals.
• Gorillas are mean animals
• Gorillas don't like other animals.

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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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Before weight machines, stationary bikes, and step aerobics, people practiced yoga for spiritual and physical health. Yoga's origins predate written history. Archaeologists have found stone carvings that show figures in yoga positions. These stones, from the Indus Valley, are at least 5,000 years old! Yoga can still contribute plenty to your weight loss program in the 21st century.

This passage is mostly about?

• Aerobics is very similar to yoga.
• Yoga has existed for centuries.
• Yoga came from the Indus Valley.
• Everyone needs to try yoga.

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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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Most people want to think that they are in control of their pets. However, a study by Karen McComb at the University of Sussex found that cat owners are controlled by their cats. Cat owners probably won’t have too much trouble believing this. Cats make a fairly loud noise by mixing a purr with a cry. The sound seems to be less annoying to humans than straight meowing. Using this sound, cats tell humans when they want to eat and when they want the door opened. The purr part of the sound keeps humans from becoming too annoyed, so the cat gets exactly what he or she wants.

What is the main idea presented in the passage?

• Cats like to purr and meow.
• Cats are smarter than humans.
• Cats control their owners.
• Humans control their cats.

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Facts. Unbiased. Does not  not include opinion.

• objective
• subjective
• none

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Which sentence below from the passage would best support the passage's Central Idea below?
CI: By voting, people grant power to leaders and express their views.

• When a person votes, he or she asserts the voice of the people.
• President Lyndon B. Johnson once said without the right to vote, no other right would have any meaning.
• No one knows what happened to the first flag.
• They may vote on public transport or the building of a new school.

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Which sentence below from the passage would best support the passage's Central Idea below?
CI: Sunlight passing through raindrops is split into a band of colors that appears as a rainbow in the sky.

• Really, the second rainbow forms when light passes through the bottoms of raindrops rather than the tops.
• To understand how rainbows form, it is helpful to think first about the times when rainbows can be seen.
• When the sky is completely clouded over, or when it is clear and dry, there are no rainbows to be seen.

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Why were concentration camps used?

• To take the elderly away.

• To house soldiers.

• The camps were made to hold prisoners of wars or civilians that are “potential” opponents or threats.

• To capture different kinds of people.

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No one knows exactly what causes tornados, but some scientists believe that when warm air meets cold air, a tornado may form. The reason for this is that the warm air is lighter than the cold air, so it rises up fast and meets different winds moving different directions. Under the right conditions, this can cause a tornado. Though there is still much mystery surrounding tornados, many people believe that when warm moist air meets cool dry air, tornados can result.

• problem & solution

• cause & effect

• compare & contrast

• chronological

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